Minorities in the Farmers Home Administration: Toward a Model of Intra-Agency Employment
In: Review of public personnel administration, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 39-67
Abstract
This research investigates the intra-agency employment patterns of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the Farmers Home Administration. Drawing on previous studies of local, state, and federal employment, this article develops and tests a model to explain employment variation within a federal agency This research uses weighted least squares regression to analyze integration in 246 Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) district offices. The findings indicate that group population, upper-level agency representatvon, funding, interminority competition, and region are important determinants of minority employment.
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