The effect of local market conditions on two pay-setting systems in the federal sector.
The authors examine the sensitivity of wage setting in two federal pay systems—the General Schedule (GS) system, covering white-collar workers, and the Federal Wage System (FWS), covering blue-collar workers—to local wages and cost-of-living. In 1978 and 1980, the years of the data, FWS wages were d...
| Publicado en: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 272 - 290 |
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Cornell University
January 2000
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