Teacher's Wages as a Mechanism to Improve the Educational Attainment of Students in Algerian Schools "An Empirical Study from 1970 to 2018"

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the importance of education economics as a modern approach to educational research, especially the importance of the policy of raising teacher wages as a mechanism to improve the educational attainment of students in government schools. The study used the inductive approach by examining the experience of Algeria between 1970 and 2018, where the Algerian government raised teachers' wages by more than 100% with the aim of improving the educational attainment of students. Therefore, the study adopted the standard method through a statistical model for a linear relationship linking the passing rate in the baccalaureate exam to express the dependent variable represented in academic achievement for students, while invoking three independent variables to indicate teachers' wages which are: minimum wages, government support, and inflation. Through the ARDL method, the assessment results showed the direct and strong relationship between teacher wages and educational attainment for students in the short and long term. Keywords: Teacher wages, students ’educational attainment, public schools, Algeria

Teacher labor markets, school vouchers, and student cognitive achievement: Evidence from Chile

I use administrative and survey data from Chile and a structural model to evaluate teacher policies in a market‐based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on the self‐selection of individuals into teaching and across school sectors, and on teacher wages in private schools. I use the estimated model to simulate a reform that is planned to be implemented in Chile in 2023. Tying public school teacher wages to teacher skills and introducing minimum competency requirements for teaching is predicted to increase student test scores by 0.30 standard deviations and decrease the achievement gap between the poorest and richest 25% of students by a third. These impacts are ten times as large as the impact of a flat wage increase in public schools, and over twice as large as the impact of only introducing minimum competency requirements. The key driver of policy outcomes is an improvement in the pool of teachers, amplified by equilibrium effects on teacher wages in private schools. The equilibrium effects are large, accounting for 70% of estimated policy impacts.

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Occupational Segregation, Teachers' Wages, and American Economic Growth

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