Teacher Turnover and Non-Pecuniary Factors

Torberg Falch and Bjarne Strøm

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

Abstract: This paper studies teacher mobility using matched employee-employer panel data from Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. The Norwegian institutional set-up with completely centralized wage setting for teachers is ideal to analyze the effect of non-pecuniary job attributes on quit decisions. We find that teachers tend to leave schools with high share of minority students and high share of students with special needs. In addition, the composition of teachers and the school size affect the propensity to quit. These results are robust across different econometric specifications and sub-samples.

Keywords: Teacher turnover; non-pecuniary factors; centralized wage setting; student composition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I29 J44 J45 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2003-10-01
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