Teacher turnover and non-pecuniary factors

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 611-631

  Falch, Torberg ^a   Strøm, Bjarne ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Centralized wage setting; Non pecuniary factors; Student composition; Teacher turnover

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; LABOR MARKET; TEACHING; TURNOVER;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 20944445650     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. A.P. Bartel Wages, nonwage job characteristics, and job mobility Industrial and Labor Relations Review 35 4 1982 578-589
2. W.H. Baugh & J.A. Stone Mobility and wage equilibration in the educator labor market Economics of Education Review 2 3 1982 253-274
3. G.S. Becker The economics of discrimination 2nd ed. 1971 University of Chicago Press Chicago
4. J.R. Betts & K.S. Reuben A. Danenberg Equal resources, equal outcomes? The distribution of school resources and student achievement in California 2000 Public Policy Institute of California San Francisco
5. F.D. Blau & L.M. Kahn Understanding international differences in the gender pay gap Journal of Labor Economics 21 1 2003 106-144
6. Bonesrønning, H., Falch, T., & Strøm, B. (2005). Teacher sorting, teacher quality, and student composition. European Economic Review, forthcoming.
7. Borge, L. E., & Pettersen, I. (1998). Likeverdig skoletilbud og kommunale inntekter. Allforsk Report.
8. Boyd, D., Lankford, H., & Loeb, S., Wyckoff, J. (2003). Analyzing the determinants of the matching of public school teachers to jobs: estimating compensating differentials in imperfect labor markets. NBER Working Paper 9878.
9. D.J. Brewer Career paths and quit decisions evidence from teaching Journal of Labor Economics 14 2 1996 313-339
10. K. Burdett Employee search and quits American Economic Review 68 1978 212-220
11. A.E. Clark What really matters in a job? Hedonic measurement using quit data Labour Economics 8 2001 223-242
12. P. Dolton & W. van der Klaauw Leaving teaching in the UK: A duration analysis Economic Journal 105 1995 431-444
13. P. Dolton & W. van der Klaauw The turnover of teachers: A competing risks explanation Review of Economics and Statistics 81 3 1999 543-552
14. R.W. Eberts & J.A Stone Wages, fringe benefits, and working conditions: An analysis of compensating differentials Southern Economic Journal 52 1985 274-280
15. R. Ehrenberg & D. Brewer Do school and teacher characteristics matter? Evidence from high school and beyond Economics of Education Review 13 1994 1-17
16. R. Ehrenberg & D. Brewer Did Teachers' verbal ability and race matter in the 1960s? Economics of Education Review 14 1995 1-21
17. Falch, T. (2003). Estimating the elasticity of labor supply to an enterprise utilizing a quasi-natural experiment. Working Paper No. 7/ 2003, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
18. R. Ferguson Paying for public education: New evidence on how and why money matters Harvard Journal on Legislation 28 Summer 1991 465-498
19. Fertig, M., & Schmidt, C. M. (2002). The role of background factors for reading literacy: Straight national scores in the PISA 2000 study. IZA Discussion Paper No. 545.
20. D. Greenberg & J. McCall Teacher mobility and allocation Journal of Human Resources 9 4 1974 480-502
21. W.H. Greene Econometric Analysis 3rd ed. 1997 Prentice-Hall New Jersey
22. M.R. Gritz & N.D. Theobald The effects of school district spending priorities on length of stay in teaching Journal of Human Resources 31 3 1996 477-512
23. E.A. Hanushek Teacher characteristics and gains in student achievement: estimating using micro data American Economic Review 60 2 1971 280-288
24. E.A. Hanushek J.F. Kain & S.G. Rivkin Why public schools lose teachers Journal of Human Resources 39 2 2004 326-354
25. L.W. Kenny & D.A. Denslow Compensating differentials in teachers' salaries Journal of Urban Economics 7 1980 198-207
26. H. Lankford S. Loeb & J. Wyckoff Teacher sorting and the plight of urban schools: A descriptive analysis Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 24 1 2002 37-62
27. A.M. Levinson Reexamining teacher preferences and compensating wages Economics of Education Review 7 1988 357-364
28. Loeb, S., & Page, M.E. (2000). Examining the link between teacher wages and student outcomes: The importance of alternative labor market opportunities and non-pecuniary variation. Review of Economics and Statisticsm 82(3), 393-408.
29. D. Mont & D.I. Rees The influence of classroom characteristics on high school teacher turnover Economic Inquiry 1996 34 152-167
30. R.J. Murnane & R.J. Olsen The effect of salaries and opportunity costs on duration in teaching: Evidence from Michigan Review of Economics and Statistics 71 2 1989 347-352
31. Rivkin, S. G., Hanushek, E. A., & Kain, J. F. (2001). Teachers, schools and academic achievement. Revised version of NBER Working Paper 6691.
32. Scafidi, B., Sjoquist., & Stinebrickner, T. R. (2002). The relationship between school characteristics and teacher mobility. Mimeo.
33. Scafidi, B., Sjoquist., & Stinebrickner, T. R. (2003). Do teachers really leave for higher paying jobs in alternative occupations? Mimeo.
34. T. Stinebrickner An empirical investigation of teacher attrition Economics of Education Review 17 1998 127-136
35. T. Stinebrickner Estimation of a duration model in the presence of missing data Review of Economics and Statistics 81 3 1999 529-542
36. T. Stinebrickner A dynamic model of teacher labor supply Journal of Labor Economics 19 1 2001 196-230
37. N.D. Theobald An examination of the influence of personal, professional, and school district characteristics on public school teacher retention Economics of Education Review 9 3 1990 241-250