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Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 2008 18(3):397-413; doi:10.1093/jopart/mum020
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Choosing Public Sector Employment: The Impact of Wages on the Representation of Women and Minorities in State Bureaucracies

Jared J. Llorens

University of Kansas

Jeffrey B. Wenger

University of Georgia

J. Edward Kellough

University of Georgia

Address correspondence to the author at llorens{at}ku.edu.

In the past, researchers in the field of public administration have been hindered in their ability to study trends in the representation of women and minorities in state government due to limitations in data availability. This article develops an alternative approach to examining the representation of women and minorities in state government bureaucracies over the period from 1987 to 2002. Based on estimates constructed using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey, our analysis shows that women are generally overrepresented in state government employment relative to their civilian labor force representation within a state, and African-Americans are overrepresented in many states. Latinos are typically underrepresented. We also examine the potential determinants of representation for women and minorities, and find, among other factors, private sector race and sex-based wage differentials, relative to those in the public sector, are positively associated with the representation of women, African-Americans, and Latinos in state government workforces.


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