Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173672 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2017/1
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest
Abstract: 
Using country panel data of student achievement from PISA, 2003-2012 combined with national-level teacher salary data from the OECD; this study investigates if relatively short term -5-years - changes in the level and structure of statutory teacher salaries affect student performance in the European countries. Our results show that there are marked differences between subjects and by the experience of teachers. Higher statutory teacher salaries and larger growth of teacher salaries at the first part of teachers' career increase students' maths and science performance, while the effect was less pronounced on reading performance and at the second part of teacher career. Nevertheless, the reason for the lack of the effect of teacher salaries at the second part of teachers' career may be the result of the lack of data on teachers' actual salaries.
Subjects: 
teacher salaries
student performance
international
PISA
random effect
two-step method
JEL: 
I20
J31
J45
C23
ISBN: 
978-615-5594-85-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
824.05 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.