No. 1/2004
TEACHER TURNOVER AND NON-PECUNIARY FACTORS
Torberg Falch
Bjarne Strøm
Abstract:
This paper studies teacher mobility using matched employee-employer
panel data from Norwegian primary and lower secondary schools. The Norwegian
institutional set-up with completely centralized wage setting for teachers
is ideal to analyze the effect of non-pecuniary job attributes on quit
decisions. We 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.
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