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Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century : How Much are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Mizala, Alejandra - 2012
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between circa 1997 and circa 2007, of teachers´ salaries vis-à-vis workers in other professional and...
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Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a 'New Monopsony' Framework : School Teachers in Missouri
Ransom, Michael R. - 2009
In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we estimate the average labor supply elasticity to public school districts in Missouri. We take...
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Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach
Rickman, Dan S. - 2015
Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
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Teacher Pay and Student Performance : Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
Pugatch, Todd - 2014
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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Teacher Performance Pay in the United States : Incidence and Adult Outcomes
Bond, Timothy - 2018
higher wages as adults. The positive effect is concentrated in grades 1-3 and on programs that targeted schools with a higher …
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Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets
Burgess, Simon M. - 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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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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Preferences, Selection, and the Structure of Teacher Pay
Johnston, Andrew - 2022
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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Immigration Restrictions as Active Labor Market Policy : Evidence from the Mexican Bracero Exclusion
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
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Globalization and Wage Convergence : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide - 2014
States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …
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