The teacher labour market, teacher turnover and disadvantaged schools: new evidence for England

Rebecca Allen (), Simon Burgess () and Jennifer Mayo

No 12-09, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: We use a newly-released dataset on school teachers in England to study teacher turnover. We show that there is a positive raw association between the level of school disadvantage and the turnover rate of its teachers. This association diminishes as we control for school, pupil and local teacher labour market characteristics, but is not eliminated. The remaining association is largely accounted for by teacher characteristics, with the poorer schools hiring much younger teachers on average. We interpret this market equilibrium allocation as either deriving from the preferences of young teachers, or as reflecting the low market attractiveness of disadvantaged schools.

Keywords: teacher labour market; teacher turnover; disadvantaged schools; educational inequality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11-28
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