Racial Submarkets in Government Employment: African American Managers in New York State |
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Authors: | Durr Marlese Logan John R |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 45435;(2) Department of Sociology, Social Science 340, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, 12222 |
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Abstract: | This paper reports on a study of the employment situation of African American managers within New York State government. We argue that affirmative action, while having created employment opportunities for minority professionals, has also created racial submarkets in government. We identify three categories of jobs, a mainstream category and two sorts of minority categories, based on the racial composition of incumbents and constituencies that they serve. African Americans in minority submarket positions appear to have equal pay relative to comparable African Americans in mainstream jobs. They are less likely to have civil service job protection. There is limited mobility between submarkets; more professionals move from the mainstream to minority positions than vice versa. In the current period of budget reductions in state government, black professionals experience considerable job insecurity and express dissatisfaction with the policies that created the minority submarket. |
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Keywords: | affirmative action occupational mobility racial submarkets career opportunities racial submarkets in government employment African American managers in New York State |
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