The new economics of teachers and education

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Flyer, F; Rosen, S
• 署名单位: University of Chicago
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209858
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: S104-S139
• 关键词: women; EMPLOYMENT; earnings

摘要

Rapidly growing costs of elementary and secondary education are studied in the context of the rising value of women's time. The dramatic increase in direct costs of education per student in the past 3 decades is empirically linked to increasing demand and utilization of teacher and staff inputs, attributable to growing market opportunities for women and changes in the structure of families. On the supply side, the ''flexibility option'' that female teachers who take temporary leaves do not suffer subsequent wage loss upon reentry, is shown to be an important attraction of the teaching profession to women.