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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. Women would require a 26-73 percent increase in salary for moving to a remote location. The results suggest that existing caste and gender quotas can be detrimental for hiring skilled teachers willing to work in remote locations. The most preferred location is home, which supports decentralised hiring, although this could compromise skills.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: IZA Journal of Labor & Development ; ISSN: 2193-9020 ; Volume: 1 ; Year: 2012 ; Pages: 1-31 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Economic Development ; Labor Contracts ; 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, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fagernäs, Sonja ; Pelkonen, Panu
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Springer
• (where): Heidelberg
• (when): 2012

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1186/2193-9020-1-3
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/92294
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET