Incentives and effort in the public sector. Have U.S. education reforms increased teachers' work hours?

Autor/inn/en	Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter
Titel	Incentives and effort in the public sector. Have U.S. education reforms increased teachers' work hours?
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2004), 32, 2 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (Bonn). 1412
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Längsschnittuntersuchung; Lebensalter; Mutter; Frau; Bildungsreform; Besoldung; Bildungsrecht; Lehrer; Schüler; Schülerleistung; Geschlecht; Datenanalyse; Demografie; Sozioökonomische Lage; Berufstätigkeit; Arbeitszeit; Rechenschaftslegung; Ethnische Gruppe; Gewerkschaft; Öffentlicher Dienst; USA
Abstract	Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, [the authors] consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in U.S. public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time teachers have risen steadily since 1983 by about an hour, and after-school instructional hours have increased 34 percent since 1987. Average hours and the rate of increase also vary widely across states. However, after accounting for a common time trend in hours, [the authors] find no association between the introduction of accountability legislation and the change in teacher hours. [They] conjecture that the weak link between effort and compensation in most school reforms helps explain the lack of such an association. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2006/3