Competition for private and state school teachers

Journal of Education and Work

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 383-404

  Green, Francis ^a   MacHin, Stephen ^b   Murphy, Richard ^b   Zhu, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Pay; Recruitment; Teachers; Working conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349187755     PISSN: 13639080     EISSN: 14699435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13639080802580336     Document Type: Article

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