The Labor Market for Teachers under Different Pay Schemes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Biasi, Barbara
• 署名单位: Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20200295
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 63-102
• 关键词: performance pay; student-achievement; long-run; incentives; QUALITY; school; PRODUCTIVITY; unions; outcomes; impacts

摘要

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.