Olson, Craig A.; Schwab, Donald P.; Rau, Barbara L. - In: Industrial and Labor Relations Review 53 (2000) 2, pp. 272-289
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...