Teacher supply
Abstract
The supply of high quality school teachers has been, and continues to be, problematic for many countries. Contributing to these problems are government budget constraints and structural demographic change. However, there is good evidence that a major determinant of teacher supply is the relative wage on offer in teaching. Hence teacher shortages often occur in subjects where the opportunity wage is high like Mathematics, and ICT, and in particular high cost living areas or where teacher working conditions are worst, like capital cities. Evidence suggests that schemes to provide teachers with incentives like performance related ...
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