Volume 7, Number 4 (Fall) 1972
Corazzini, Arthur J. 1972. "Equality of Employment Opportunity in the Federal White-Collar Civil Service." Journal of Human Resources 7(4):424-445.
The issue of labor market discrimination has attracted considerable attention in the literature. This study extends knowledge of the extent of such discrimination in the labor market by focusing on the public sector, specifically federal white-collar workers. Employing regression analysis, the returns to several measures of worker productivity are investigated, and the average salary differential between whites and nonwhites, males and females--with these variables held constant--are measured. The sample of 950 workers is analyzed in the aggregate; then several subsamples are analyzed separately. The results obtained are compared and conclusions drawn as to the effectiveness of federal personnel policy in eliminating labor market discrimination.
The author is Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University. The author wishes to thank the Brookings Institution for providing the funds which made this research possible. The work was carried out while the author was a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow. In addition, he is indebted to Dennis Dugan, John Keith Jr., Daniel Ounjian, and William Peirce for their helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this article.
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