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Teaching Personnel Wages
Klyachko, Tatiana - 2014
In 2013, the principle focus in the Russian education system was placed upon raising teaching personnel wages, because … these wages are linked to wages of the nursery-school teacher and teaching personnel of the extended education system … monitoring-based study showed that growth in wages had no significant effect on the teaching personnel's self-sentiment, most of …
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Employee motivation and job performance : a study of basic school teachers in Ghana
Forson, Joseph Ato; Ofosu-Dwamena, Eric; Opoku, … - In: Future Business Journal 7 (2021), pp. 1-12
Motivation as a meaningful construct is a desire to satisfy a certain want and is a central pillar at the workplace. Thus, motivating employees adequately is a challenge as it has what it takes to defne employee satisfaction at the work‑ place. In this study, we examine the relationship...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201018
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The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes
Biasi, Barbara - 2018
Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies a 2011 reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. I show that, following the reform, some districts switched to flexible compensation and...
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Chapter 5. Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining
Podgursky, Michael - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 279-313). 2011
While compensation accounts for roughly 90% of K-12 instructional costs, there is little evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher compensation systems in developed economies and research on their performance effects. Since these compensation...
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Seven Myths of Executive Compensation
Larcker, David F. - 2013
Executive compensation has become one of the most contentious topics in corporate governance. However, public perception about executive pay suffers from many misconceptions. These include the notions that:1. The ratio of CEO-to-average-worker pay is a useful statistic:2. Compensation...
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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Johnston, Andrew C. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837321
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Teacher Preferences, Working Conditions, and Compensation Structure
Johnston, Andrew C. - 2020
Improving schools depends on attracting talented teachers and fostering retention, both made possible by appealing to worker preferences. I use a discrete-choice experiment to estimate preferences for a comprehensive set of workplace attributes including compensation structure, working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842229
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Sunshine, Stakeholders, and Executive Pay : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Galle, Brian D. - 2014
We evaluate the effect of highly salient disclosure of private college and university president compensation on subsequent donations using a quasi-experimental research design. Using a differences-in-discontinuities approach to compare institutions that are highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher...
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Preferences, Inequities, and Incentives in the Substitute Teacher Labor Market
Kraft, Matthew A.; Conklin, Megan Lane; Falken, Grace T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. Wage elasticity estimates suggest incentives would need to be 50% of daily wages to close fill-rate gaps …
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