How status-group power differentials shape age discrimination within US federal agencies: Evidence from EEOC formal complaint filings, 2010-2019

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Krause, George A.; Park, Jungyeon
• 署名单位: University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of South Alabama
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.13532
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 51-64
• 关键词: representative bureaucracy; CONSEQUENCES; perceptions; DIRECTIONS; authority; CONFLICT; EQUALITY; fairness; GENDER

摘要

Age discrimination is a systemic problem of the American administrative state that undermines both the caliber and performance of the U.S. federal government workforce. A theory is proposed, anchored on discrimination against age-eligible employees (age 40 and over) representing a social identity group, to explain how status-group power differentials between supervisors and non-supervisors within U.S. federal agencies explain the organizational incidence of formal discrimination complaints. The theory predicts that the incidence of age discrimination formal complaints is declining in the share of supervisory personnel who are discrimination age-eligible while increasing in the share of non-supervisory personnel members who belong to this group. Evidence is obtained for these hypotheses using objective data on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's age discrimination formal complaints about an unbalanced panel of 130 U.S. federal agencies between 2010 and 2019. The empirical evidence underscores the structural challenges to combatting ageism within the U.S. federal government workforce during an era of an intergenerational personnel change.