Firm Age and Wages

尽管人们对个人特征与经济结果之间的关系了解甚多，但对企业特征（除了规模和工会化）与劳动力市场现象之间的关系了解甚少。公司的一个关键特征是它们的年龄。这个项目将侧重于企业生存相关特征的年龄相关差异，以及企业规模或行业等属性。该项目首先分析了公司的年龄和工资，包括平均关系的大小和标志，并检查了不同设置下偏离这一标准的情况。将尝试解释为什么存在这种差异，以及它们如何在合理竞争的产品市场中持续存在。现有的数据集将用于分析，包括最低工资雇主调查和英国工作场所劳资关系调查。然而，该项目的一个主要部分将涉及将雇主年龄估计与数据文件中的观察结果相匹配，这些数据文件缺乏雇主年龄的明确衡量标准，但具有大样本和更详细的工人特征。具体来说，Dun and Bradstreet或经济分析局（Bureau of Economic Analysis）根据行业规模和地区获取公司平均年龄信息的县商业模式将与当前人口调查中的个人记录相匹配。此外，《消费者调查》的补充将包括一些问题，使工人的特点能够得到控制。这个新的数据集将通过数据档案提供给其他经济学研究人员。

Although a great deal is known about how the characteristics of individuals and economic outcomes are related, much less is known about the association between characteristics of firms (other than size and unionization) and labor market phenomena. A key characteristic of firms is their age. This project will focus on the age related differences in the survival-relevant characteristics of firms as well as attributes such as firm size or industry. The project begins with an analysis of firm age and wages, including the size and sign of the relationship on average and checks for departures from this norm across settings. An attempt will be made to explain why such differentials exist and how they can persist in reasonable competitive product markets. Existing data sets will be utilized for the analysis, including the Minimum Wage Employer Survey and the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. However, a major part of the project will involve matching estimates of age of employer to observations in data files which lack an explicit measure of employer age but have large samples and more detail on worker characteristics. Specifically, the Dun and Bradstreet or the Bureau of Economic Analysis County Business Patterns which obtain information on average age of firm by industry size and region will be matched to individual records in the Current Population Survey. In addition, a supplement to the Survey of Consumers would include questions which would enable worker characteristics to be controlled for. This new data set would be made available through a data archive for other researchers in economics.