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Title: Local Public Bureaucracies, Nonprofits, and Economic Opportunities: A Comparative Analysis of Pay for Women and Minority Managers

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Relative to the for-profit sector, women and minorities have been fairly successful in achieving executive and managerial positions in government. Although historically overlooked in employment analyses, the nonprofit sector also tends to employ larger numbers of women and minorities in high-ranking capacities. In fact, the majority of all managers in the nonprofit sector are female. What are the implications of these employment trends for the earning prospects of women and minorities? We use 2000 census data to compare differences in the incomes of female and minority managers by sector in six different occupational categories. We find that women managers are statistically significantly more likely to earn higher incomes in the nonprofit sector than in local government for each of the six occupations we examined. However, minority managers are likely to fare better in terms of income when they are employed by local government organizations. Although this analysis carries some limitations, it represents an important first step toward understanding the economic opportunity structure available to women and minorities within the two public-serving sectors.

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Authors: LeRoux, Kelly M.; Sneed, Bethany G.

Conference Name: Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association

Publisher Location: Philadelphia, PA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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