Valuing Teachers' Working Conditions: Adjusting Personnel Cost by Compensating Wage Differentials of Teaching Staf

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5560.2018.05.012

Abstract

Abstract: The paper offers a theoretical framework for approximating geographic cost of teacher index (GCTI) by taking into account of (un) desirabilities of teachers' working conditions. Hedonic price theory serves as the theoretical underpinning for interpreting of earning function in poor and remote neighborhoods. It argues that compensating wage differentials can be estimated and adjusted by numbers of teachers recruited within each geographic region, then aggregated at higher administrative levels. Also, GCTI provides both conceptual framework and empirical strategy for financing education service of comparable quality across different geographic spaces. In addition, the GCTI-weighted formula makes it technically feasible to evaluate current policies targeting at providing equal accesses to quality education for residents dwelling in hard-to-teach areas.

Key words: compensating wage differentials, teachers' working conditions, geographic cost of teacher index

MA Hongmei, LEI Wanpeng, QIAN Jia. Valuing Teachers' Working Conditions: Adjusting Personnel Cost by Compensating Wage Differentials of Teaching Staf[J]. Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa, 2018, 36(5): 129-137+170.

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