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Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s

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  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Peter Dolton
  • Steven McIntosh

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This paper examines the market for teachers in the UK from 1960 to 2002 using six graduate cohort data-sets. We find that, while there is no strong evidence that teachers are underpaid, the relative wages in teaching compared with alternative professions have a significant impact on the likelihood of graduates choosing to teach. This wage effect is strongest at times of low relative teachers' wages, or following a period of decline in those wages. It is also strongest for those individuals who have more recently graduated, and for men. Copyright (c) The London School of Economics and Political Science 2006.

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Paper provided by Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE in its series CEE Discussion Papers with number 0021.

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  1. Steve Gibbons & Olmo Silva, 2007. "Urban Density and Pupil Attainment," CEE Discussion Papers 0080, Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE.
  2. Hof, Stefanie & Strupler, Mirjam & Wolter, Stefan C., 2011. "Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System," IZA Discussion Papers 5806, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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  4. James Walker & Anna Vignoles & Mark Collins, . "Higher education academic salaries in the UK," Economics & Management Discussion Papers em-dp2006-37, Henley Business School, Reading University.
  5. Silva, Olmo, 2009. "Some Remarks on the Effectiveness of Primary Education Interventions," IZA Policy Papers 5, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  6. Arnaud Chevalier & Peter Dolton, 2004. "The Labour Market for Teachers," Working Papers 200411, School Of Economics, University College Dublin.

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