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The teacher labour market, teacher turnover and disadvantaged schools: new evidence for England

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  • Rebecca Allen
  • Simon Burgess
  • Jennifer Mayo

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We use a newly-released dataset on school teachers in England to study teacher turnover. We show that there is a positive raw association between the level of school disadvantage and the turnover rate of its teachers. This association diminishes as we control for school, pupil and local teacher labour market characteristics, but is not eliminated. The remaining association is largely accounted for by teacher characteristics, with the poorer schools hiring much younger teachers on average. We interpret this market equilibrium allocation as either deriving from the preferences of young teachers, or as reflecting the low market attractiveness of disadvantaged schools.

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  • Rebecca Allen & Simon Burgess & Jennifer Mayo, 2012. "The teacher labour market, teacher turnover and disadvantaged schools: new evidence for England," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 12/294, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
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    1. Burgess, Simon, 2016. "Human Capital and Education: The State of the Art in the Economics of Education," IZA Discussion Papers 9885, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    teacher labour market; teacher turnover; disadvantaged schools; educational inequality;
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