“Super Heads”, School Autonomy and Leadership Pay
This paper assesses the contribution of school autonomy – in particular, discretion in setting remuneration levels – to leadership salary differentials and inequality in English schools. It first shows there are head teacher salary differentials between academy schools (which have more autonomy) and traditional state schools, but that a large part is attributable to observable teacher and school characteristics. By contrast, the majority of the observed increase in head teacher salary inequality remains unexplained by the growth of academies. The emergence of “super heads”, whose high levels of remuneration have driven the inequality rise, is not a direct consequence of the academisation of English schools. Instead, it reflects part of a more general shift towards the market determination of salaries in the English secondary school sector
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[2022]
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Authors: | Telhaj, Shqiponja ; Machin, Stephen J. ; Eyles, Andy |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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