Preferences and skills of Indian public sector teachers

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With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers and men respectively. The joint analysis of preferences and skills suggests that existing caste and gender quotas are detrimental for the objective of hiring skilled teachers willing to work in remote locations. The most preferred location is home, which supports decentralised hiring, although evidence suggests that in remote areas this could compromise skills.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6563

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Economic Development ; Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; Public Sector Labor Markets
• Subject: discrete choice experiment ; teacher recruitment ; job preferences ; hiring quotas ; skills ; India ; Lehrkräfte ; Personalbeschaffung ; Qualifikation ; Präferenztheorie ; Region ; Diskrete Entscheidung ; Test ; Indien

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fagernäs, Sonja ; Pelkonen, Panu
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58955
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201301213258
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:22 AM CEST