Decentralization of wage determination: Evidence from a national teacher reform q

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Willen, Alexander
• 署名单位: Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104388
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: Wage regulation; decentralization; Teacher labor market

摘要

This paper presents new evidence on the labor market effects of wage decentralization, exploiting a Swedish reform that replaced the fixed national pay scale for teachers with individual wage bargaining. The paper provides three sets of results. First, I show that the reform significantly changed the wage structure of teachers. Second, I demonstrate that these wage changes did not impact teacher retention, recruitment, or composition, and did not affect student outcomes. Finally, I provide suggestive evidence of a wage spillover effect to substitute occupations. I propose that the suggestive spillover effect helps explain the null results on teacher and student outcomes. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.