Economic Incentives as a Strategy for Responding to Teacher Staffing Problems: A Typology of Policies and Practices

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 779-813

  Kolbe, Tammy ^a   Strunk, Katharine O ^b  

^a Optimal Solutions Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

economic incentives; human resource management; teacher compensation; teacher recruitment; teacher retention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869459156     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X12441011     Document Type: Article

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