Teacher turnover and non-pecuniary factors

This paper studies teacher mobility using matched employee-employer panel data from Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. The Norwegian institutional setup with completely centralized wage setting for teachers is ideal to analyze the effect of non-pecuniary job attributes on quit decisions....

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Published in:Economics of education review 2005-12, Vol.24 (6), p.611-631
Main Authors: Falch, Torberg, Strom, Bjarne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ausländeranteil
Besoldung
Centralized wage setting
Empirische Untersuchung
Faculty Mobility
Größe
Kündigung
Lehrer
Lehrerkollegium
Minority Groups
Mobilität
Non-pecuniary factors
Norwegen
Norwegian
School Size
Schule
Schulsystem
Schulwechsel
Schüler
Sonderschule
Special Education
Special Needs Students
Statistik
Student composition
Teacher Persistence
Teacher turnover
Zufriedenheit
Ökonometrie
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Summary:This paper studies teacher mobility using matched employee-employer panel data from Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. The Norwegian institutional setup with completely centralized wage setting for teachers is ideal to analyze the effect of non-pecuniary job attributes on quit decisions. [The authors] find that teachers tend to leave schools with high share of minority students and high share of students with special needs. In addition, the composition of teachers and the school size affect the propensity to quit. These results are robust across different econometric specifications and sub-samples. (DIPF/Orig.).
ISSN:0272-7757
1873-7382
DOI:10.1016/j.econedurev.2004.09.005