Salarios de los docentes públicos en Colombia 1995-2010

Alejandro Ome ()

Coyuntura Económica, 2012

Abstract: Atraer profesionales de alta calidad a la carrera docente es uno de los retos más importantes que enfrenta la política educativa en Colombia. En este orden de ideas, ofrecer un esquema de salarios atractivo constituye un requisito para lograr que individuos de alta calidad profesional opten por entrar a la carrera docente. En este artículo se analiza si los docentes, en promedio, ganan más o menos que otros trabajadores con características similares. Se utiliza la Encuesta de Hogares para estimar la diferencia salarial entre docentes y otros trabajadores durante los últimos quince anos. Se muestra que, si bien a mediados de los anos 90 los docentes ganaban menos que trabajadores comparables, actualmente la diferencia salarial es cercana a cero. Abstract. Attracting qualified professionals to teaching is one of the most important education policy challenges facing Colombia. Offering a competitive compensation plan is a necessary condition to achieve this goal. In this paper, I analyze whether pay schedules for teachers in Colombia compensate the more productive teachers more than the less productive teachers, especially in light of recent reforms to education laws. Likewise, using the Colombian Household Surveys I compare teacher pay to that of other workers with similar characteristics by estimating a pay gap. I show that although teachers were paid less than comparable workers during the 1990´s, this gap has virtually disappeared

Keywords: Educación; Salarios; Calidad de la educación.Education Policy; Wages; Education Quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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