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Promotion in the Australian Public Service: Improvements for Women and Stagnation for Cultural and Linguistic Minorities

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dc.contributor.authorBreunig, Roberten
dc.contributor.authorHansell, Daviden
dc.contributor.authorWin, Nu Nuen
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-12T22:41:57Z
dc.date.available2026-07-12T22:41:57Z
dc.date.issued2026en
dc.description.abstractWe investigate whether being female, Indigenous, from a non-English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past 20 years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at junior ranks. NESB staff have much lower promotion prospects at higher ranks despite being less likely to separate from the public service. Lower promotion prospects for NESB staff are only partially explained by language proficiency or cultural assimilation. The unexplained remainder could reflect tokenism or a penalty for being non-white.en
dc.description.sponsorshipWe thank the Australian Public Service Commission (APSC), in particular David Judge, for access toand explanations of the high-quality Australian Public Service Employment Database (APSED) files. Thispaper has benefited from invaluable comments and suggestions from staff at the APSC including HelenWilson, Narelle Powers, Katrina Purcell and NicoleSteele. We acknowledge useful comments providedby Aruna Anderson, Jared Dent, Paul Hubbard, Jonathan Hambur, Michael Kouparitsas, AbigaelOgada-Osir and Nabeeh Zakariyya. We have received alarge number of useful comments from seminarparticipants in agencies across the Australian Public Service. We are grateful to Ric Curnow, ChloeHeiniger and Vanessa Ritchie for their editing assistance. The editor and two anonymous referees at theEconomic Record provided very useful comments which helped to improve the paper. This research hasreceived ethics approval from the Human Ethics Committee of the Australian National University underprotocols H/2023/1284 and H/2023/1332. Nu Nu Win would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation PhD Scholarship Program. Open access publishing facilitated by Australian National University, as part of the Wiley -Australian National University agreement via the Council of Australasian University Librarians.en
dc.description.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.format.extent46en
dc.identifier.issn0013-0249en
dc.identifier.otherWOS:001737310000001en
dc.identifier.otherORCID:/0000-0002-2220-3410/work/220246791en
dc.identifier.scopus105035341353en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1885/733813153
dc.language.isoenen
dc.provenanceCC BY 4.0en
dc.rights © 2026 The Author(s). en
dc.sourceEconomic Recorden
dc.subjectDiscriminationen
dc.subjectAssimilationen
dc.subjectImmigrantsen
dc.subjectDiversityen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.titlePromotion in the Australian Public Service: Improvements for Women and Stagnation for Cultural and Linguistic Minoritiesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dspace.entity.typePublicationen
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage295en
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage250en
local.contributor.affiliationBreunig, Robert; Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy, The Australian National Universityen
local.contributor.affiliationHansell, David; Australian National Universityen
local.contributor.affiliationWin, Nu Nu; Australian National Universityen
local.identifier.citationvolume102en
local.identifier.doi10.1111/1475-4932.70047en
local.identifier.pure1f883796-4eca-49ad-acd9-436b7d9d4f6ben
local.identifier.urlhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105035341353en
local.type.statusPublisheden

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