Arbeitspapier

Career changers in teaching jobs: A case study based on the Swiss vocational education system

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to work in teaching, every vocational teacher has to change his or her initial career. This paper focuses on the relevance of monetary motives for changing a career to teaching. Using a unique data set of trainee teachers, we show that professionals who change their careers to teaching earned on average more in their first career than comparable workers in the same occupation. Our findings additionally demonstrate that the average career changer still expects to earn significantly more as a teacher than in the former career. However, the study shows substantial heterogeneity and a zero wage elasticity of the teacher supply, suggesting that non-monetary motives are more relevant for career change than monetary factors.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5806

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Education and Research Institutions: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Public Sector Labor Markets
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Thema
career change
occupational change
rate of return to education
wage differentials
teacher wages
vocational education and training

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hof, Stefanie
Strupler, Mirjam
Wolter, Stefan C.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20110629941
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hof, Stefanie
  • Strupler, Mirjam
  • Wolter, Stefan C.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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