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Thomas A. DiPrete, Whitman T. Soule, The Organization of Career Lines: Equal Employment Opportunity and Status Advancement in a Federal Bureaucracy, American Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Jun., 1986), pp. 295-309
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