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Author: Pfeffer, Jeffrey
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1. Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Ross, Jerry
The Effects of Marriage and a Working Wife on Occupational and Wage Attainment
Administrative Science Quarterly 27,1 (March 1982): 66-80.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2392546
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keyword(s): Control; Earnings, Wives; Marital Status; Occupational Status; Occupations; Wages, Women

In a 1966 study of the NLS Older Men cohort, the positive effects of being married and the negative effects of having a working wife for both occupational status and wage attainment were observed most strongly for professional and managerial subsamples. These results are consistent with both conformance-to-social expectations and wife-as-career resource arguments, but not as consistent with either human capital/market-signaling or distributive justice arguments. The effects of specific organizational tenure, education, and socioeconomic origins on both forms of attainment tended to be stronger for managers than for professionals, and stronger for professionals than for blue-collar respondents. These results are consistent with the different needs for control, given the uncertainty of evaluation, performance, and importance of the jobs (higher for managers and professionals than for others), and the different mechanisms for achieving control. Professional control is achieved more through extraorganizational mechanisms, while managerial control is achieved through background, certification, and tenure, which tend to be associated with compliance to the normative structure.
Bibliography Citation
Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Jerry Ross. "The Effects of Marriage and a Working Wife on Occupational and Wage Attainment." Administrative Science Quarterly 27,1 (March 1982): 66-80.
2. Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Ross, Jerry
Union-Nonunion Effects on Wage and Status Attainment
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 19,2 (March 1980): 140-151.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1980.tb01084.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Job Tenure; Job Training; Occupational Status; Schooling; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unions

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

First, this paper examines the process of occupational prestige attainment as well as wage attainment. In the literature on the sociology of labor markets, occupational prestige is itself an important outcome and has been the principal variable used in the study of stratification in society. Thus, the examination of the effects of unionization on the occupational status determination process is significant. Second, the authors include in the wage and occupational status determination equations two important additional variables, race and socioeconomic origins. Finally, longitudinal data is employed to examine whether there are differences in the dynamics of the occupational prestige and income determination process over time among unionized and nonunionized employees.
Bibliography Citation
Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Jerry Ross. "Union-Nonunion Effects on Wage and Status Attainment." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 19,2 (March 1980): 140-151.
3. Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Ross, Jerry
Unionization and Female Wage and Status Attainment
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 20,2 (Spring 1981): 179-185.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1981.tb00202.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Job Training; Occupational Status; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unions

A growing body of evidence indicates that unionization has a leveling effect upon wages and occupational status. In a recent article in this journal, it was argued that union leveling occurred not only in the case of human capital variables, but also across virtually the entire set of individual characteristics. However, that study, as well as others in this tradition, focused on a sample of male workers and failed to examine the extent to which the results could be generalized to working women. This note undertakes such an extension. Using essentially the same variables and measures as before, we examine the effect of being in the union as contrasted with the nonunion sector on wages and occupational prestige attainment processes for a sample of women working full time. The results suggest a need for greater caution in drawing general conclusions about the impact of unionization on wage and status attainment based on evidence from male (particularly white male) samples.
Bibliography Citation
Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Jerry Ross. "Unionization and Female Wage and Status Attainment." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 20,2 (Spring 1981): 179-185.
4. Pfeffer, Jeffrey
Ross, Jerry
Unionization and Income Inequality
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 20,3 (September 1981): 271-285.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1981.tb00202.x/abstract
Cohort(s): Older Men
Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley
Keyword(s): Job Tenure; Job Training; Occupational Status; Schooling; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unions

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Findings from an examination of the relationship between labor unions and income inequality suggest that one of the effects of unionization is the reduction of inter-race and intra-race income inequality for organized workers. Evidence does not confirm that unionization has the effect of increasing either kind of income inequality.
Bibliography Citation
Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Jerry Ross. "Unionization and Income Inequality." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 20,3 (September 1981): 271-285.