This study investigates the bargaining effects of the decisions made by school boards in Pennsylvania whether to reschedule teacher strike days so that a district may qualify for state aid. Because a decision to reschedule strike days can substantially reduce teacher strike costs, the author...

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...