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Disparate pathways : understanding racial disparities in teaching
Blazar, David; Anthenelli, Max; Gao, Wenjing; Goings, … - 2024
Mounting evidence supporting the advantages of a diverse teacher workforce prompts policymakers to scrutinize existing recruitment pathways. Following four cohorts of Maryland public high-school students over 12 years reveals several insights. Early barriers require timely interventions, aiding...
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Teacher labor market equilibrium and student achievement
Bates, Michael; Dinerstein, Michael; Johnston, Andrew; … - 2022
We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multi-dimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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Teacher preferences, working conditions, and compensation structure
Johnston, Andrew - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting high-caliber teachers and increasing retention, both made possible by appealing to teacher preferences. I deploy a discrete-choice experiment in a setting where teachers have reason to reveal their preferences. There are three main findings: (1) I...
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Teacher labor markets in developing countries
Crawfurd, Lee; Pugatch, Todd - 2020
's stock of human capital. This paper considers how markets and non-market institutions determine the quantity, wages, skills … wages. The evidence supports the existence and importance of such frictions in how teacher labor markets function. In many …; teachers on permanent and temporary contracts; and teachers in urban and rural areas. Teacher supply increases with wages …
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Preferences, selection, and the structure of teacher pay
Johnston, Andrew - 2021
I conduct a discrete-choice experiment with responses linked to administrative teacher and student records to examine teacher preferences for compensation structure and working conditions. I calculate willingness-to-pay for a rich set of work attributes. High-performing teachers have similar...
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Deregulating teacher labor markets
Burgess, Simon M.; Greaves, Ellen; Murphy, Richard - 2019
A common feature of public sector labor markets is the use of pay scales. This paper examines how the removal of pay scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school-designed performance related pay schemes. We find that...
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Do teachers' labor contracts matter?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Quaranta, Roberto - 2023
Previous literature on the effect of tenured and tenure-track vs. non-tenure-track professors on students' performance at university finds contrasting results. Our paper is the first to test whether tenured/tenure-track and non-tenure-track teachers differently affect students' performance at...
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Job mismatches and career mobility
Wen, Le; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2018
Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education leads to a higher level of occupational advancement and wage growth over time, with mixed international empirical evidence. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly...
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Spatial changes in labour market inequality
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2013
We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of significant spatial variations in education employment shares and in the college wage premium for US states and MSAs, and show...
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The short- and long-term career effects of graduating in a recession : hysteresis and heterogeneity in the market for college graduates
Oreopoulos, Philip (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the long-term effects of graduating in a recession on earnings, job mobility, and employer characteristics for a large sample of Canadian college graduates using matched university-employer-employee data from 1982 to 1999. The results are used to assess the role of job...
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