Competition, Wages and Teacher Sorting: Lessons Learned from a Voucher Reform
研究了瑞典私立高中进入如何影响教师流动和工资，发现私立学校进入提高了教师工资，尤其是新入职和数理教师，并加剧了同领域内高技能与低技能教师的工资差距。
This article examines how the entry of private independent high schools in Sweden affects the mobility and wages of teachers in a market with individual wage bargaining. Using matched employer–employee panel data covering all high school teachers over 16 years, I show that the entry of private schools is associated with higher teacher salaries, also for teachers in public schools. The wage returns from competition are highest for teachers entering the profession and for teachers in maths and science. Private school entry also seems to have increased wage dispersion between high‐ and low‐skilled teachers within the same field.