Teacher Policy and Labor Market Outcomes

[en] 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.

Disciplines :

Education & instruction

Author, co-author :

Voisin, Annelise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des Sciences de l'éducation > Analyse de politiques éducatives ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Research Unit for a life-Course perspective on Health and Education (RUCHE)

Coppe, Thibault

Dumay, Xavier

Language :

English

Title :

Teacher Policy and Labor Market Outcomes

Publication date :

17 December 2025

Main work title :

The Liberalization of Teacher Employment Regimes in Europe

Publisher :

Oxford University PressNew York, NY

ISBN/EAN :

978-0-19-776171-7
978-0-19-776168-7

Pages :

163-188

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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