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ERIC Number: EJ1044878
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0741-3653
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An Efficiency Assessment among Empirically Defined Labor Markets for Determining Pay for Teachers
Tran, Henry; Young, I. Phillip
Journal of School Public Relations, v34 n2 p139-161 Spr 2013
Fundamental to updating a fixed-rate salary schedule for teachers is the reliance on a relevant labor market containing comparisons to other school districts--that is, object school districts, which can be chosen from a policy or empirical/efficiency perspective. As such, four relevant markets having roots in neoclassical economic literature--supply and demand, economy of scale, ability to pay, and cost-benefit--served as our single independent variable, defined by a least squares sum of difference between object school districts (n = 200) and target school districts (n = 5) composing a potential relevant labor market. These districts were cast into a 5 (target) × 4 (object) randomized block design, and efficiency was assessed according to two dependent variables: entry-level salary and average teacher salary. Multivariate analysis of variance results indicate that all potential labor markets are equally efficient for entry-level pay amounts but differ according to the average salary paid teachers. Collectively, these findings have implications for establishing teacher pay amounts and increases in the field setting, from a policy perspective and for a negotiated labor contract.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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