Job Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities in Teacher Mobility

Posted: 1 Mar 2012

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Stephane Bonhomme

Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI)

Grégory Jolivet

University of Bristol

Edwin Leuven

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: February 2012

Abstract

Abstract Job characteristics can affect worker turnover through their effect on utility and through their effect on outside job opportunities. We separately identify and estimate the roles of these two channels. Our method exploits information on job changes and relies on an augmented sample selection correction. Taking our approach to an exhaustive register of Dutch primary school teachers, and using arguably plausible exclusion restrictions, we show a detailed picture of preferences for school characteristics. We also study how preference estimates may be biased when ignoring information on job opportunities and discuss the implications for the analysis of teacher turnover.

Keywords: compensating differentials, labour turnover, sample selection, teaching labour markets

JEL Classification: C34, C36, J40, J62, J63

Suggested Citation

Bonhomme, Stephane and Jolivet, Grégory and Leuven, Edwin, Job Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities in Teacher Mobility (February 2012). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8841, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2013834

Stephane Bonhomme (Contact Author)

Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) ( email )

Casado del Alisal 5
28014 Madrid
Spain

Grégory Jolivet

University of Bristol ( email )

University of Bristol,
Senate House, Tyndall Avenue
Bristol, Avon BS8 ITH
United Kingdom

Edwin Leuven

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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