Can districts keep good teachers in the schools that need them most?

Economics of Education Review

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 962-979

  Guarino, Cassandra M ^a   Brown, Abigail B ^b   Wyse, Adam E ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Michigan Dept of Transportation   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics of education; Teacher labor markets

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; HUMAN CAPITAL; INVESTMENT; LABOR MARKET; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TEACHING;

EID: 80051665848     PISSN: 02727757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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