The Economics of Teacher Supply

The authors use a systematic analysis to examine the key issues of teacher's pay.

Antoni Zabalza (Author), Philip Turnbull (Author), Gareth Williams (Author)

9780521133920, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 March 2010

296 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

This book was originally published in 1979 and deals with the contentious subject of teacher's pay. There were a number of key issues. First, and most crucial, how salary levels were affecting the aggregate supply or teachers. In other words, where teaching is a vocation so salaries make no difference, or whether pay matters. The second issue is how much difference do administered pay scales make? Lastly, could the system manage to adjust within this framework to the underlying pattern of shortage and surplus? All these questions above are subjected to systematic analysis using the complete tapes of the teachers' record for 1963–1972 from the Department of Education and Science. The analysis is approached with an awareness of the educational context within which the market is situated. It remains of value to anyone with an interest in education and economics.

Introduction M. Blaug and R. Layard
Foreword
1. Teacher supply in Britain
2. An overview of the labour market for teachers
3. Salaries and wage negotiations
4. A model of occupational choice
5. New entrants
6. Leavers
7. Inter-school and inter-regional mobility of teachers
8. The effect of special allowances
9. Personal characteristics and the earnings of teachers: an earnings function approach
10. Some policy implications
Epilogue some transatlantic comparisons M. J. Bowman
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Labour economics [KCF], Education [JN]