Teacher mobility responses to wage changes: evidence from quasi-natural experiment

Torberg Falch

Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Abstract: This paper utilizes a Norwegian experiment with exogenous wage changes to study teacher’s turnover decisions. Within a completely centralized wage setting system, teachers in schools with a high degree of teacher vacancies in the past got a wage premium of about 10 percent during the period 1993-94 to 2002-03. The empirical strategy exploits that several schools switched status during the empirical period. In a fixed effects framework, the wage premium reduces the probability to quit by 6-7 percentage points and increases recruitment by 4-7 percentage points.

Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2010-04-26
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