Minority Faculty Hiring Power in Academe: An Economic Model

Abstract

This paper investigates whether minorities in academe exercise bargaining power in a way that influences hiring of other minority faculty. We develop a stylized model that shows how minorities influence the hiring of other minorities, taking into account the hiring of majority faculty. We postulate that such behavior is similar to the behavior of insider workers in the context of the insider-outsider literature.

Gender discrimination in the business school’s C-suite? Evidence from aggregate decomposition approaches

“…Interest in the topic remained strong into the 1980s (e.g., see Hirsch and Leppel, 1982; 10.3389/feduc.2022.981007 Barbezat, 1987;Raymond et al, 1988), 1990s (e.g., see Lindley et al, 1992Lillydahl and Singell, 1993;Ashraf, 1996;McNabb and Wass, 1997;Toutkoushian, 1998), and even the current century (e.g., see Ward, 2001;Blackaby et al, 2005;Toumanoff, 2005;Takahashi and Takahashi, 2011). In recent years, interest has turned to analyses of possible gender discrimination in hiring and the awarding of tenure, promotion and named professorships (e.g., see Ginther and Hayes, 2003;Mixon and Treviño, 2005;Sabatier, 2010;Faria et al, 2013Faria et al, , 2016Cooray et al, 2014;Treviño et al, 2017;Treviño et al, 2018;Gold et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2022).…”

When forgiveness beats permission: Exploring the scholarly ethos of clinical faculty in economics

“… 9 9 See studies by Hilmer and Hilmer (2009), Faria et al (2013), Ouardighi et al (2013), Faria and McAdam (2015), Brogaard et al (2018), Mixon (2018), Perri (2018) and Faria and Mixon (2021) for more on the relationships between productivity (and other factors) and merit raises, promotion and tenure. …”

Negotiation and bargaining power in the determination of administrative wages in academe

“…There is, of course, a large literature on gender and racial discrimination in the wages of rank-and-file faculty (e.g.,Ashraf, 1996;Barbezat, 1987;Blackaby et al, 2005;Ginther & Hayes, 2003;Gordon et al, 1974;Hirsch & Leppel, 1982;Hoffman, 1976;Koch & Chizmar, 1976;Lindley et al, 1992;Takahashi & Takahashi, 2011;Toutkoushian, 1998). This literature has even turned, in recent years, to explorations of gender and race effects in faculty hiring (e.g.,Faria et al, 2016), promotion (e.g.,Faria et al, 2013;Sabatier, 2010), and the awarding of named professorships (e.g.,Gomez-Mejia et al, 2009;Mixon & Treviño, 2005;Treviño et al, 2017Treviño et al, , 2018.3Sorokina (2003) concedes that some labor market characteristics that may be correlated with gender are not controlled for in the study and, importantly, that wage gap decomposition, which is often used to detect discrimination in pay, is beyond the scope of the study.4 Professors do impact the revenue function of the university, given that, according to 3 and 4, tuition and the university's productivity are functions of faculty, L.5 An implication of 14 is that 11 illuminates issues regarding bargaining power and gender or racial discrimination in the market for deans.6 Some of these implications are supported inFaria et al (2019).7 Physical copies of public universities' annual budgets are often housed inside these institutions' libraries and are available for viewing. Visiting faculty who are on campus as part of the interview process often find the time to peruse these budgets in an effort to gather information on the salary structures of the host institutions.8 See http://uknow.uky.edu/eli-capilouto-named-12th-university-kentuckypresident.…”

“…2 2 There is, of course, a large literature on gender and racial discrimination in the wages of rank‐and‐file faculty (e.g., Ashraf, 1996; Barbezat, 1987; Blackaby et al, 2005; Ginther & Hayes, 2003; Gordon et al, 1974; Hirsch & Leppel, 1982; Hoffman, 1976; Koch & Chizmar, 1976; Lindley et al, 1992; Takahashi & Takahashi, 2011; Toutkoushian, 1998). This literature has even turned, in recent years, to explorations of gender and race effects in faculty hiring (e.g., Faria et al, 2016), promotion (e.g., Faria et al, 2013; Sabatier, 2010), and the awarding of named professorships (e.g., Gomez‐Mejia et al, 2009; Mixon & Treviño, 2005; Treviño et al, 2017, 2018). …”