Although there is growing recognition of the contribution of teachers to students' educational outcomes, there are large gaps in our understanding of how teacher labor markets function. Most research on teacher labor markets use models developed for the private sector. However, markets for...

Although there is growing recognition of the contribution of teachers to students' educational outcomes, there are large gaps in our understanding of how teacher labor markets function. Most research on teacher labor markets use models developed for the private sector. However, markets for...

[...]This paper is an interim report on continuingwork that we began in 1988. Our earlier research on thecauses of wage structure changes in the 1980s (Bound andJohnson 1992) showed that part of explanation A (theslowdown in the growth rate of that fraction of the workforce with high levels of...