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Teacher mobility responses to wage changes: evidence from quasi-natural experiment

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  • Torberg Falch

    () (Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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This paper utilizes a Norwegian experiment with exogenous wage changes to study teacher’s turnover decisions. Within a completely centralized wage setting system, teachers in schools with a high degree of teacher vacancies in the past got a wage premium of about 10 percent during the period 1993-94 to 2002-03. The empirical strategy exploits that several schools switched status during the empirical period. In a fixed effects framework, the wage premium reduces the probability to quit by 6-7 percentage points and increases recruitment by 4-7 percentage points.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology in its series Working Paper Series with number 10910.

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Length: 37 pages
Date of creation: 26 Apr 2010
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Handle: RePEc:nst:samfok:10910

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  1. Bonesronning, Hans & Falch, Torberg & Strom, Bjarne, 2005. "Teacher sorting, teacher quality, and student composition," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 49(2), pages 457-483, February.
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Cited by:
  1. Alan Manning, 2010. "Imperfect Competition in the Labour Market," CEP Discussion Papers dp0981, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
  2. Dal Bó, Ernesto & Finan, Frederico S. & Rossi, Martín A., 2012. "Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service," IZA Discussion Papers 6645, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  3. Torberg Falch, 2013. "Wages and Recruitment: Evidence from External Wage Changes," CESifo Working Paper Series 4078, CESifo Group Munich.

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