Search theory suggests early career job changes lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold true
in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial differences in working conditions.
As has been well documented, low - income schools and districts are at a disadvantage
in the teacher labor market.
But one thing that surprised me about the analysis was the extent of the fragmentation
in the teacher labor market in Illinois.
One area with potential to create inefficiencies
in its teacher labor market is pensions.
Not exact matches
For example, many female
teachers who leave teaching do so
in order to leave the
labor market altogether, often for family reasons.
By contrast, those graduating
in 2000 were entering the
labor market during the tech boom, when there was a good deal of competition for the
labor of prospective
teachers.
Although we don't have three - year placement rates for 2013 grads yet (the dashed black line
in the graph), the
teacher labor market appears to be recovering.
Our analysis, Reforming K - 12 Educator Pensions: A
Labor Market Perspective, shows that the current systems result
in very large implicit transfers from young
teachers working short teaching spells to «long termers» who spend entire careers
in the same system.
His research interests include
teacher labor markets, education finance, student achievement
in international exams,
market - based reforms
in education, vocational and technical education and school - based management
in developing countries.
The local nature of
teacher labor markets makes it unlikely that this will happen
in many parts of the country — will anyone
in Weldon, NC really care that their one nearby school of education was rated poorly?
Given the byzantine complexity of state
teacher - licensing laws, the natural dynamics of the
teacher labor market, and bureaucratic delay
in granting and transferring credentials, full compliance is nearly impossible.
Like much
in the world of education, this aspect of the
teacher labor market appears not to be very different today than 50 years ago.
This argument begs the question about how large correlations should be to be considered as indicators of adult outcomes, and it also discounts recent research showing that test scores improvements related to effective
teachers were correlated with gains
in adult
labor -
market outcomes.
The evidence suggests that
teacher collective bargaining leads to worse student outcomes that are reflected
in long - run
labor market success.
In a new paper, the University of Virginia's Daniel Player describes the current state of rural
teacher labor markets, contrasting them with urban, suburban, and town settings.
A big challenge — and one he said is essential to preparing children for a
labor market in which routine and individualized tasks are being automated — is making sure this style of education is not lost
in higher grades, when
teachers turn to lecturing and standardized curriculums.
Should
teachers resist grade inflation even if it helps their students
in the college and
labor market?
This evidence is consistent with a simple theory of
teacher labor markets that predicts that lower quality
teachers will be disproportionately found
in schools with low ‐ achieving, poor and non-white students.
Abstract: This article analyzes the impact of classroom characteristics and opportunity wages on four possible
labor market choices of
teachers in Florida: remaining at their present school, switching schools within a school district, changing school districts, and leaving teaching.
Other research shows that changes
in these laws caused the pace of
teachers» unionization to vary considerably, even among states with very similar
labor markets such as Ohio and Illinois.
Many
teachers enter the ranks for the same humdrum reasons people find employment
in the larger
labor market - propinquity, accident, force of habit, good or bad advice, inertia, convenience.
To build and maintain a qualified
teacher workforce
in today's
labor market, states should fundamentally reform their retirement benefit systems.
It seems difficult enough attracting effective
teachers and leaders to work long hours at modest salaries
in New Orleans; doing it throughout Louisiana is unrealistic without a major change
in the educator
labor market.
This is not ideal for Nevada's
teacher labor market, which supplies public schools (including charter schools, which are required to participate
in NVPERS) and private schools.
In order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and career
In order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses
in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and career
in the
teacher and principal
labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careers.
The research covers a broad range of issues
in teacher policy, including
teacher preparation,
teacher labor market institutions, how
teachers are distributed across schools, and
teacher retention, particularly
in urban, low performing schools.
The Role of Alternative Opportunities
in the Female
Labor Market on
Teacher Supply and Quality 1940 - 1990.
But that's not going to fundamentally alter
teacher labor markets in the United States.
the Role of Female
Labor Markets in the Decline of
Teacher Supply and
Teacher Quality, 1940 - 1990
Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching of Public School
Teachers to Jobs: Estimating Compensating Differentials
in Imperfect
Labor Markets,
This chapter of the handbook provides numerous resources for
teachers and counselors to use
in order to help students understand the connections between their career goals and various
labor markets.
In recent years, a number of states have enacted tenure reforms, thereby potentially transforming the landscape and traditionally protected structure of the
teacher labor market.
I am currently involved
in projects examining
teacher recruitment and retention
in constrained
labor and housing
markets, how school sorting processes affect student opportunities to learn, and how educator - initiated curricula that center the cultural and historical experiences of traditionally marginalized students impact student outcomes.
This increase
in spending partially reflects that schools must compete to hire college - educated
teachers in a
labor market where well - educated workers command higher and higher salaries, but it also indicates that innovation and increases
in productivity have occurred faster and been more effective
in the broader economy than
in the field of education.
He found that «laws requiring school districts to engage
in collective bargaining with
teachers unions lead students to be less successful
in the
labor market in adulthood.
Nonetheless, these conjectures are categorized into sections about how VAMs might help us to (1) change the supply of people who opt into pursuing a teaching career and who are selected into the
labor market, (2) change the effectiveness of those currently teaching, and (3) change which
teachers elect to, or are permitted to, stay
in teaching.
The report compares
teachers with other professionals
in the same
labor market of similar age, degree level and hours worked.
Ronning (2004) include a binary variable for Norwegian
teachers born
in the
labor market in which they work
Teacher Labor Markets and the Perils of Using Hedonics to Estimate Compensating Differentials
in the Public Sector
Despite significant changes
in the
labor market broadening opportunities for women and rising expectations for the role of
teachers and schools, these structures and incentives have persisted almost unchanged to the present.
This paper begins by providing an overview of what we know about
teacher labor markets in the United States.
The research on
teacher labor markets is quite large and expanding; yet, as
in most areas of education research, our knowledge is full of holes and only gets us a little ways towards identifying productive policy directions.
At the same time, 25 % of
teachers cross state lines
in their careers, and many leave the profession because of barriers to transferring their licenses and pensions, so solving these national
labor market problems would be helpful.
As Kata Mihaly and her colleagues and Bruce Baker of Rutgers have demonstrated, when
labor markets result
in a non-random distribution of
teachers across schools and districts, it's very difficult to disentangle the effects of the
teacher - preparation program on teaching outcomes from the effects of school context.
However, this is a flawed measure as relatively little competition for
teachers occurs between states and state rankings fail to take into account differences
in the
labor markets across states.
Public education doesn't use a «draft» to match new
teachers with schools, but
in both teaching and basketball, there's a
labor market with a supply of, and demand for, new talent.
In addition to linking directly to state websites for labor market information, look again at OOH's «Job outlook» entry for teacher you'll see under «Employment Change»: «Fast - growing States in the South and West — led by Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia — will experience the largest enrollment increase
In addition to linking directly to state websites for
labor market information, look again at OOH's «Job outlook» entry for
teacher you'll see under «Employment Change»: «Fast - growing States
in the South and West — led by Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia — will experience the largest enrollment increase
in the South and West — led by Nevada, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia — will experience the largest enrollment increases.