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Theories of Teacher Mobility

The mobility of teachers among schools, among school districts, and between the school sector and other sectors of the economy can be fully understood only by unraveling a complicated web of social, psychological, economic, and purely random components. Any theory so extravagant as to attempt a complete explanation of teacher mobility would possess a structure as complicated as the phenomena to be understood. However, an extremely simple theory with a parsimonious structure would probably yield an inadequate explanation of teacher mobility. The framework presented aims at a balance between simplicity of structure and power of explanation by bringing to bear the work of economists on human capital, internal labor markets, and Markov models.

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