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Furgeson, Joshua; Strauss, Robert P.; Vogt, William B. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
The retirement behavior of Pennsylvania public school teachers in 1997-98 and 1998-99, a period when state early retirement incentives were temporarily increased, is modeled using a choice framework that emphasizes both pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors of the retirement decision under a defined benefit retirement plan. We find each to have large…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Teacher Retirement, Incentives, Public School Teachers
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Johnson, Gary P.; Gaetino, Joseph Q. – Journal of Education Finance, 1982
A questionnaire survey of 331 Pennsylvania public school teachers gathered data on their attitudes toward Early Retirement Incentive Plans (ERIPs) and on their demographic and job characteristics. The results show teachers strongly support the ERIP concept, chiefly because of their desires to pursue second careers or leisure pursuits. (RW)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Job Satisfaction, State Surveys