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Ortega, Daniel E. – Economics of Education Review, 2010
This paper examines the effect of teacher relative wages and teacher wage dispersion on high school graduates' preferences for teaching majors in College. This approximation to teacher quality is appropriate in a country like Venezuela as opposed to the US since the rigidity of the tertiary school system significantly limits mobility between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), Wages, Teacher Effectiveness
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Shin, Jaeun; Moon, Sangho – Economics of Education Review, 2006
This paper examines the effects of fertility and relative wages on occupational choice (teaching versus non-teaching) and labor force participation decisions of female college graduates using selectivity-corrected panel estimations. We find that the presence of a new born baby is not particularly important to the choice of occupation, but…
Descriptors: Wages, Career Choice, Labor Force, College Graduates