The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes
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Compensation of most US public school teachers is rigid and solely based on seniority. This paper studies the effects of a reform that gave school districts in Wisconsin full autonomy to redesign teacher pay schemes. Following the reform some districts switched to flexible compensation. Using the expiration of preexisting collective bargaining agreements as a source of exogenous variation in the timing of changes in pay, I show that the introduction of flexible pay raised salaries of high-quality teachers, increased teacher quality (due to the arrival of high-quality teachers from other districts and increased effort), and improved student achievement. (JEL J31, J45, J52, H75, I21)
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- Authors
- Biasi, B.
- Affiliations
- IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Biasi, Barbara
- Venue
- American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2021-08-01
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 63-102
- ISSN
- 1945-7731 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-774X
- OpenAlex
- W2607117092
- Cited by
- 82
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 23.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- American Economic Journal Economic Policy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Academy of Education
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Professional Development and Motivation
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- teacher compensation, flexible pay, seniority-based pay, collective agreements, teacher quality, teacher mobility, academic performance
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