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Taylor, Lori L. – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Teachers are more likely to be found in rural communities and low-wage metropolitan areas than are college-educated workers in other occupations. This analysis explores the extent to which the geographic distribution of teachers explains the relatively low average wage found in other studies. The analysis suggests that excluding geographic…
Descriptors: Wages, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Salaries, Geographic Distribution
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Taylor, Lori L. – Education Finance and Policy, 2006
A Comparable Wage Index (CWI) is an attractive mechanism for measuring geographic variations in the cost of education. A CWI measures uncontrollable variations in educator pay by observing systematic variations in the earnings of comparable workers who are not educators. Together, the 2000 census and the Occupational Employment Statistics survey…
Descriptors: Wages, School Districts, Employment Statistics, Educational Equity (Finance)