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Progress toward Pay Equity in State Governments?
Author(s) -
Lewis Gregory B.,
Boyd Jonathan,
Pathak Rahul
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12897
Subject(s) - pay equity , census , closing (real estate) , equity (law) , citizenship , state (computer science) , gender pay gap , demographic economics , labour economics , political science , economics , business , sociology , finance , law , politics , population , demography , algorithm , computer science , wage
Are state governments fulfilling their responsibilities to be model employers of women and minorities? Using U.S. Census Bureau data on individual employees from 1980 to 2015, this article looks at how much progress state governments have made toward eliminating racial and gender pay differences. It examines whether differences in education, age/experience, citizenship, English ability, hours worked, and occupation explain the pay differences. Patterns and explanations vary substantially by group, but state governments are doing a better job than private firms of closing pay gaps on almost every measure .