Teacher Compensation and Collective Bargaining

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 279-313

  Podgursky, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

School finance; Teacher collective bargaining; Teacher compensation; Teacher pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953696519     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53429-3.00005-3     Document Type: Book

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