Our next Yinghua He Empirical Micro Workshop will be held on Monday, 31st March, from 12:30 to 13:30 in Auditorium 4.
Paul Diegert will present: “Imperfect information and mismatch in the labor market for teachers”, co-authored with Ana Gazmuri, François Poinas.
In Norway, many people who train to be teachers do not ultimately work as teachers. Conversely, many teachers were not formally trained as teachers. Both kinds of “mismatch” between training and occupational choice entail costs ex-post: teachers without the correct qualifications are paid less and have less job security, and people who change occupation after training as a teacher typically could have entered the labor market earlier and earned more money if they had trained in a different field. In this paper, we examine what drives this apparent mismatch and what the consequences are for wages and student outcomes in Norwegian schools. Using matched employee-employer registry data from Statistics Norway, we estimate a dynamic model to jointly explain college major decisions, occupational choices, wages, and student outcomes with a focus on how imperfect information about aptitude for teaching drives the apparent mismatch in the labor market for teachers.
The full calendar for the workshop can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/appliedmicrotse/
Organizers#
- Ana Maria GAZMURI (TSE)
- Matteo BOBBA (TSE)
- David MORALES (TSE)