Teacher Policy and Labor Market Outcomes

Abstract
Chapter 6 looks at cross-national variations in the regulation of the teaching profession and the way they shape how teachers perceive the value of their profession and feel about their employment conditions, work environment, profession, and their intention to quit it within the next five years. It draws on a theoretical typology of profession regulation that distinguishes four models and aims at testing their effects with a sample of sixteen countries that participated in the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2018 survey. Results show that comparisons between models of regulation add highly significantly to the prediction of these outcomes, which has important implications for the design of teacher policy.