The Hidden Divide: School Segregation of Teachers in the Netherlands

Rafiq Friperson, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw

No 18292, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We use Dutch register data to document the understudied phenomenon of teacher segregation. We show that teachers in primary and secondary schools in the four largest cities of the country - Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht - are segregated in terms of their migration and social backgrounds. While segregation by social background is not much higher than what would be expected under random teacher-school assignment, segregation by migration background is substantial even after accounting for randomness. Relating schools' teacher composition to their student composition, we find in most cases that schools with a high proportion of teachers from a particular background tend to have a high proportion of students from that same background.

Keywords: Segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-07
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