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。这些数据将来自两个来源：1870年社会统计手稿普查，收集了小民事部门一级各种职业的工资信息；以及雇用人员和物品报告，收集了美国陆军文职雇员的工资清单。这些数据将被用来探索19世纪劳动力市场一体化的两个问题。首先是工资趋同的过程，即当地劳动力市场随着时间的推移保持高工资或低工资的趋势。第二个问题是工资在边境州定居中的作用：高工资是通过将新的定居者拉到边境来导致定居，还是劳动力被“推”到新的地方(西方充当了人口的“安全阀”)，导致这些地区的定居和工资低迷。这些数据还将用于构建新的年度工资序列，这些序列将比以前的数据具有更好的职业和地理覆盖范围。