The Labour Market for Australian Teachers

Although there is a general consensus that teachers are important for student learning, there is little discussion of the process by which teachers are employed by schools: the teacher labour market. We argue, based on a mix of a priori and inductive reasoning, that inflexible attitudes about comparative wages have contributed toward chronic shortages of qualified teachers in specialized teacher labour markets and poor incentives for excellent teachers to remain teaching.

Elizabeth Webster, Mark Wooden and Gary Marks, Reforming the Labour Market for Australian Teachers,PDF format (170K). Publised as Webster E, Marks G & Wooden M. 2006. Reforming the Labour Market for Australian Teachers. Australian Journal of Education. 50 (2): 185-202.

Webster, E. Wooden, M. and Marks, G. (2005) Teaching and the Teacher Labour Market. The Case for Reform, Australian Economic Review, 38(1), 91-8.