Income Inequality amongst Swiss Primary School Teachers in the Late 19th Century

Joël Floris, Ulrich Woitek and Wüthrich Gabriela

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2013, vol. 54, issue 1, 57-74

Abstract: We examine the distribution of income across Swiss primary school teachers at the end of the 19th century. To assess income differences we use a detailed data set on the income of 14,000 Swiss primary school teachers in 1881 and 1894/95. In addition, we use annually aggregated test scores from pedagogical examinations at recruitment, to test for the impact of inequality on conscripts’ performance. Our results show that between-group inequality amounts to about 35 per cent of total income inequality, and that teachers’ income inequality does not play a role in explaining differences in the performance of conscripts in the pedagogical examinations.

Keywords: Inequality; Teachers’ Income; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1524/jbwg.2013.0004

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