This booklet provides an overview of the principal concepts of pension portability. Pension portability has become an area of increasing interest since a lack of portability discourages veteran teachers from seeking teaching opportunities in other districts or states. This obstacle can force teachers to abandon the profession, thus contributing to…

Suggests some monetary and nonmonetary incentives to keep good teachers in hard-to-staff, inner-city schools. (Author/WD)

Uses data from the 1986 Canadian labor market activity survey file to derive estimates of residual gender wage gap differences. Investigates these estimates' dependence on experimental design and on assumptions about discrimination-free wage structures. Residual differences persist, even after restricting the sample to a group of highly motivated,…

Analyzes the return to education of liberalization of the labor market in Vietnam. Finds, for example, that private rate of return to schooling is greater for primary education than for either secondary or higher education. Overall, estimated returns to schooling in Vietnam are low compared with those for other developing countries. (Contains 6…

Uses household survey data for 18 Latin American countries to assess earnings differentials by education level and to chart 1980s changes. Introducing cost of education allows private and social rates of return to education investment to be estimated by education level, gender, employment sector, curriculum type, duration. In most countries,…

Examines the relationship of earnings and family background, based on Greece's 1977 Special Wages and Salaries Survey. Tests whether returns to education differ significantly according to an individual's socioeconomic background. Contrary to findings for the United Kingdom and the United States, there is a positive relationship between the…

A salary-schedule compression is the process of reducing the number of salary schedule steps while still giving annual salary increases. Explains what school districts can do during negotiations to compress a schedule without awarding greater increases than originally intended. A sidebar shows a table for relating years of teaching experience to…

Using 1985 personnel record data from the Portuguese Ministry of Labor, a recent regression analysis found that the average rates of return for schooling in Portugal are in the 9.4 to 10.4 percent range. Large gender and regional earnings differentials exist. Study implications and limitations are discussed. (21 references) (MLH)

A 20-year study indicated that educational salaries at all levels have continuously declined relative to the average weekly earnings in Australia. Possible explanations are the role of government, the national teachers' union policy toward different payment systems, and the cultural attitude toward intellectual endeavor. (JOW)

Reexamines Ashenfelter and Krueger's estimates of schooling returns (13%), using three additional years of the same twins survey. Finds a 10% return per year of schooling completed. The within-twin regression estimate of schooling's effect in the log wage is smaller than the cross-sectional estimate. (14 references) (MLH)

To test the paradoxical female hypothesis (satisfaction with salary underpayment), researchers surveyed a random sample of school chief finance officers. Female officers (unlike their male counterparts) receiving less than their entitled salaries enjoyed the same level of pay satisfaction as female and male officers receiving more than their…

Uses data from 1989 Uruguayan Household Survey to investigate earnings/education relationship. Mincerian earnings functions fitted to nearly 10,000 workers reveal a 9.2% private return rate for each extra year of schooling. Females realize a full percentage point over males; private sector employees enjoy a 5 percentage point advantage over public…

Examines why German firms hire overeducated employees in low-skill jobs and pay them more than correctly educated ones. Finds that overeducated employees are more productive, enjoy better health, participate more in on-the-job training, and have longer firm tenure than their correctly educated colleagues. (Contains 28 references.) (PKP)

Examines school personnel salaries in relation to discretionary and cost factors, drawing from the "Schools and Staffing Survey" and "Current Population Surveys." Educators with greater educational preparation and experience, who exert greater effort and attended selective colleges, earn higher salaries. Urban and high-crime areas pay higher…

Across OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, governments are having to work with shrinking public budgets while designing policies to make education more effective and responsive to growing demand. The 2011 edition of "Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators" enables countries to see themselves in the light of…