New Evidence on Wages in the United States, 1870-1900

关于 1870-1900 年美国工资的新证据

• 批准号: 9818330
• 负责人: Robert Margo
• 金额: $ 6.45万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9818330&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Evidence; Wages; United; States

This project will collect, computerize, and make available new data on wages in the United States from 1870 to 1900. The data will be drawn from two sources: the 1870 manuscript census of social statistics which collected information on wages in various occupations at the minor civil division level; and the Reports of Persons and Articles Hired, which are a collection of payrolls of civilian employees of the United States Army. The data will be used to explore two issues of labor market integration in the nineteenth century. The first is the process of wage convergence, the tendency for high or low-wage local labor markets to remain high or low wage over time. The second is the role of wages in the settlement of frontier states: did high wages cause settlement by "pulling" new settlers to the frontier, or was labor "pushed" into new locations (with the West acting as a population "safety-valve"), causing both settlement and depressed wages in these areas. The data will also be used to construct new annual wage series that will have better occupational and geographic coverage than those previously available.

该项目将收集，计算机化并提供有关1870年至1900年美国工资的新数据。该数据将从两个来源中汲取：1870年的社会统计手稿人口普查，这些统计数据收集了有关小型民事部门各个职业的工资信息；以及被雇用的人员和物品的报告，这些报告是美国陆军民用雇员的薪资集。 这些数据将用于探索19世纪劳动力市场整合的两个问题。 首先是工资融合的过程，这是随着时间的流逝，高薪当地劳动力市场的趋势保持高薪或低工资。 第二个是工资在边境国家的定居点中的作用：高工资是否通过将新的定居者“将新的定居者拉到边境或被劳动“推到新地点）（西方作为人口“安全阀”），导致这些地区的定居点和压抑工资。 数据还将用于构建新的年度工资系列，该系列的职业和地理覆盖范围将比以前可用的更好。