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Differential Teacher Attrition : Do High-Ability Teachers Exit at Higher Rates?

Hendricks, Matthew - 2016

Prior evidence of differential teacher attrition is conflicting. Studies that use proxies such as certification scores, SAT or ACT scores, or the selectivity of the teacher's undergraduate institution tend to find that attrition is highest among high-ability teachers. In contrast, many studies...

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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses : Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2021

There is currently a worldwide shortage of registered nurses, driven by large shifts in both the demand for and supply of nurses. Consequently, various policies to increase the recruitment and retention of nurses are under discussion, in particular, the role that wage increases might have in...

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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service : The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Shields, Michael A.; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E. - 2021

In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...

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Does rewarding pedagogical excellence keep teachers in the classroom? : evidence from a voluntary award program

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ramos, Alejandra - 2018

We analyze the effects on teacher retention and between school mobility of a program that rewards excellence in pedagogical practice in Chile. Teachers apply voluntarily for the award and those who succeed on a set of assessments receive a 6 percent annual wage increase for up to 10 years. We...

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Can financial incentives help disadvantaged schools to attract and retain high-performing teachers? : evidence from Chile

Elacqua, Gregory; Hincapié, Diana; Hincapié, Isabel; … - 2019

The extensive sorting of more talented teachers into the most advantaged schools contributes to the wide socioeconomic achievement gaps in Latin America. The Chilean Pedagogical Excellence Assignment (AEP, for its Spanish acronym) is a unique program in the region that provides monetary...

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New firms entry, labor reallocation, and institutions in transition economies : in transition economies, better property rights protection and rule of law enforcement can boost job...

Bruno, Randolph - 2015

In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing state enterprises, reforming labor markets, compensating laid-off workers, and fostering job creation through new private firms. After privatization, the focus shifted to...

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The politics of central bank independence: A theory of pandering and learning in government

Eggertsson, Gauti B.; Le Borgne, Eric - 2005

We propose a theory to explain why, and under what circumstances, a politician endogenously gives up rent and delegates policy tasks to an independent agency. Applied to monetary policy, this theory (i) formalizes the rationale for delegation highlighted by Alexander Hamilton, the first...

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International Influences on Election Quality and Turnover

Kelley, Judith G. - 2010

This chapter is part of a book manuscript with the working title “MONITORING DEMOCRACY: When international election … international monitors on election quality. The present chapter is purely empirical. It examines the influence of international … monitors on a given election is complicated. As a previous book chapter discusses, whether an election is monitored depends …

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State Capacity, Incumbent Turnover and Democratic Change in Authoritarian Elections

Van Ham, Carolien - 2017

Under what conditions do elections lead to democratization or conversely, sustain authoritarianism? State capacity may be a crucial intervening variable affecting the democratizing power of elections in authoritarian regimes. In regimes with limited state capacity, manipulating elections,...

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Electoral turnovers

Marx, Benjamin M.; Pons, Vincent; Rollet, Vincent - 2022

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