Federal Pay Inside and Outside The Beltway: Why Do Federal Employees Earn More in Headquarters?

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 37-57

  Lewis, Gregory B ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970441427     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: 1552759x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X9501500405     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Asher, M. and J. Popkm (1984) “The Effect of Gender and Race Differentials on Public-Private Wage Comparisons: A Study of Postal Workers.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 38: 16-25.
2. Becker, Gary S. (1962) “Investment in Human Capital. A Theoretical Analysis,” Journal of Political Economy 70 (October). 9-49
3. G.S. Becker Gary S. (1971) The Economics of Discrimination Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
4. Borjas, George J. (1980) “Wage Determination in the Federal Government: The Role of Constituents and Bureaucrats,” Journal of Political Economy 88 (): 1110-47.
5. G.J. Borjas George J.(1982) “The Politics of Employment Discrimination in the Federal Bureaucracy,” Journal of Law and Economics 25 (October):271-299.
6. G.J. Borjas George J. (1983) “The Measurement of Race and Gender Wage Differentials Evidence from the Public Sector,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 37, 1 (October).79-91.
7. Corazzini, Arthur J. (1972) “Equality of Employment Opportunity in the Federal White-Collar Civil Service,” Journal of Human Resources 7 (Fall): 424-45.
8. DiPrete, Thomas A. (1987) “The Professionalization of Administration and Equal Employment Opportunity in the U.S. Federal Government,” American Journal of Sociology 93 (July): 119-40.
9. T.A. DiPrete Thomas A. (1989) The Bureaucratic Labor Market: The Case of the Federal Civil Service New York: Plenum Press.
10. and Whitman T. Soule (1986) “The Organization of Career Lines: Equal Employment Opportunity and Status Advancement in a Federal Bureaucracy,” American Sociological Review 51 (June): 295-309.
11. Durst, Samantha L., Patricia M Patterson, and John Ramsden (1989) “Impacts of Traditional Explanatory Factors on Average Grade Increases in U.S. Cabinet-Level Departments,” Public Administration Review 49 (July/August): 362-71.
12. England, Paula, Marilyn Chassie, and Lmda McCormack (1982) “Skill Demands and Earnings in Female and Male Occupations,” Sociology and Social Research 66 (January): 147-68.
13. England, Paula, George Farkas, Barbara Stanek Kilbourne, and Thomas Dou (1988) “Explaining Occupational Sex Segregation and Wages Findings from a Model with Fixed Effects,” American Sociological Review 53 (August): 544-58
14. Filer, Randall K. (1983) “Sexual Differences in Earnings: The Role of Individual Personalities and Tastes,” Journal of Human Resources 18. 82-99.
15. R.K. Filer Randall K. T.M. Robert T. Michaels I.H. Heidi I. Hartmann O. Brigid O'Farrell (1989) “Occupational Segregation, Compensating Differentials, and Comparable Worth,” in Robert T. Michaels, Heidi I. Hartmann, and Brigid O'Farrell (eds.), Pay Equity: Empirical Inquiries (Washington, D C.: National Academy Press) pp. 153-70.
16. Goldenberg, Edie N. (1985) “The Permanent Government in an Era of Retrenchment and Redirection,” in Lester M. Salamon and Michael S. Lund (eds.), The Reagan Presidency and the Governing of America (Washington, D.C: The Urban Institute): 381-404.
17. Grandjean, Burke (1981) “History and Career in a Bureaucratic Labor Market,” American Journal of Sociology 86 (March): 1057-92.
18. Hartman, Robert W. (1983) Pay and Pensions for Federal Workers. Washington: The Brookings Institution.
19. Jenkins, Kent Jr., and DeNeen L. Brown (1990) “Area's Federal Workers Feel Shortchanged on Pay Raise,” Washington Post (January 29): A11.
20. Keyfitz, Nathan (1973) “Individual Mobility in a Stationary Population,” Population Studies: A Journal of Demography 27 (July): 335-52.
21. Krueger, Alan B. (1988) “Are Public Workers Paid More than their Alternative Wage? Evidence from Longitudinal Data and Job Queues,” in Richard B. Freeman and Casey Ichniowski (eds.), When Public Sector Workers Unionize (Chicago: University of Chicago Press): 217-44.
22. Levine, Charles H (1986) “The Federal Government in the Year 2000: Administrative Legacies of the Reagan Era,” Public Administration Review 46 (May/June): 195-206.
23. Lewis, Gregory B. (1987) “Changing Patterns of Sexual Discrimination in Federal Employment,” Review of Public Personnel Administration 7 (Spring): 1-13.
24. G.B. Lewis Gregory B. (1988) “Progress Toward Racial and Sexual Equality in the Federal Civil Service?” Public Administration Review 48 (May/June):700-06.
25. G.B. Lewis Gregory B. S. and Samantha L. Durst and Samantha L. Durst (1995) “Will Locality Pay Solve Recruitment and Retention Problems in the Federal Civil Service?” Public Administration Review 55 (July/August)
26. Long, James E. (1976) “Employment Discrimination in the Federal Sector,” Journal of Human Resources 11 (Winter): 86-97.
27. J.E. Long James E.(1982) “Are Government Workers Overpaid? Alternative Evidence,” Journal of Human Resources 17 (Winter): 41-62.
28. Mincer, Jacob (1970) “The Distribution of Labor Incomes: A Survey with Special Reference to the Human Capital Approach,” Journal of Economic Literature 8 (March): 1-26.
29. National Commission on the Public Service ( 1989) Leadership for America: Rebuilding the Public Service Task Force Reports. Washington, D.C.
30. Perloff, J.M. and M.L. Wachter. (1984) “Wage Comparability in the U.S Postal Service.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 38: 26-35
31. Polachek, Solomon (1976) “Occupational Segregation: An Alternative Hypothesis,” Journal of Contemporary Business 5: 1-12.
32. Quinn, Joseph (1979) “Wage Differentials Among Older Workers in the Public and Private Sectors,” Journal of Human Resources 14 (Winter): 41-62.
33. Rosen, Bernard (1983) “Effective Continuity of U.S. Government Operations in Jeopardy,” Public Administration Review 43 (September/ October) 383-91.
34. Smith, Sharon P. (1976) “Government Wage Differentials by Sex,” Journal of Human Resources 2 (Spring): 185-99
35. S.P. Smith Sharon P. (1977) Equal Pay in the Public Sector Fact or Fantasy. Princeton, N J.: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University.
36. Stewman, Shelby, and Suresh L. Konda (1983) “Careers and Organizational Labor Markets: Demographic Models of Organizational Behavior,” American Journal of Sociology 88 (January): 637-85.
37. Taylor, Patricia A., 1979. “Income Inequality in the Federal Civilian Government,” American Sociological Review, 44: 468-79.
38. Thompson, Frank J. (1976) “Classification as Politics,” in Robert T. Golembiewski and M. Cohen (eds.), People in Public Personnel Administration, Second Edition. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
39. U.S. Advisory Committee on Federal Pay (1979 ) Eight Years of Federal White-Collar Pay Comparability. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
40. U.S. General Accounting Office (1994) Federal Personnel: Federal/Private Pay Comparisons Washington, D.C. U.S Government Printing Office.
41. U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service (1984) “Study of Total Compensation in the Federal, State, and Private Sectors,” Committee Print 98-16, 98th Cong, 2nd Sess., December 4. Washington, D.C. U.S Government Printing Office.
42. U.S Office of Personnel Management, Personnel Systems and Oversight Group (1992). Personnel Research Highlights Survey of Federal Employees Washington, DC: author.
43. F.J. Thompson Frank J. T.G. Robert T. Golembiewski M. Cohen (1993) Occupations of Federal White-Collar and Blue-Collar Workers, September 30, 1993. Washington, DC: author.
44. Wildavsky, Aaron (1988) “Ubiquitous Anomie in the Civil Service,” Public Administration Review 48 (July/August): 753-55.
45. Wyatt Company (1989) Study of Federal Locality Pay. Report. Philadelphia: Author.