{"id":8247,"date":"2015-09-30T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:19:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:19:19","slug":"new-governance-and-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2015\/09\/30\/new-governance-and-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"“New Governance” and Privatization Increase Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n George Wilson, Vincent J. Roscigno, Matt Huffman, <\/span>“Racial Income Inequality and Public Sector Privatization,” Social Problems<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2015<\/span><\/div>\n
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Public sector jobs, like those in the military, education, and prisons, have long been seen as increasing racial equality; they\u2019re often service-oriented and secure, providing seniority, benefits, and paths to promotion. But as \u201cnew governance,\u201d described by George Wilson<\/a>, Vincent J. Roscigno<\/a>, and Huffman\u2019s new Social Problems<\/em> research, and privatization make the public sector look more like the private sector, racial wage parity erodes. In exploring their findings, the authors challenge scholarship on institutions and inequality that has assumed that, over time, \u201csocial change and associated structural transformations will reduce\u2026 inequalities\u201d—that organizational and bureaucratic forces will lead, inevitably, to drops in racism and discrimination.<\/p>\n

<\/div>Using two datasets, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID2012) and the Integrated Public Use Data Series (IPUMS), Wilson, Roscigno, and Huffamn compare wage discrepancies between black and white employees across time and \u201cnew governance,\u201d controlling for factors such as work ethic, education, physical health, gender, age, and unionization. The authors show that, with privatization, wage discrepancies by race grow within and<\/em> beyond the public sector; this change is not explained by other variables.With privatization, wage discrepancies by race grow within and<\/em> beyond the public sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

New governance means both private and public sectors operate, increasingly, under business models, complete with managerial discretion and market principles. Thus, public jobs start to look more like private ones and rather than continuing a legacy of increased equality, both<\/em> sectors see more<\/em> inequality over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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