The Salaries of Public School Teachers

这项拟议的研究调查了加利福尼亚州公立学校教师工资的决定因素。在计划期间，本研究估计了教师、学区、学生和家长的工资与特征之间的关系。终身工资概况是参考人力资本、代理和中位数选民理论进行评估的。这项研究测试了关于工会行为的三个假设：工会是否减少了工资的分散，工会是否增加了劳工在总成本中的份额，工会是否增加了分配给附带福利的补偿份额。该研究还调查了在以显性合同为特征的市场中，确定工资的传统经验方法的充分性。这项研究将增加我们对显性合同下工资变化的理解，并作为工会市场中工资和就业决定的行为模型的基础。这样的模型将让政策制定者预测工会和学区对学区外生预算约束变化的反应，并计算州教育支出增加对教师工资和班级规模的影响。

The proposed research examines the determinants of public school teacher salaries in the state of California. During the planning period, the study estimates the relationships between wages and characteristics of the teachers, school districts, students, and parents. Lifetime wage profiles are evaluated with reference to human capital, agency, and median voter theories. The study tests three hypotheses on union behavior: whether unions decrease the dispersion of wages, whether unions increase labor's share of total costs, and whether unions increase the share of compensation allocated to fringe benefits. The research also investigates the adequacy of conventional empirical approaches to wage determination in markets characterized by explicit contracts. This research will both increase our understanding of salary variation under explicit contracts and serve as the basis for a behavioral model of wage and employment determination in a unionized market. Such a model will let policy makers predict the union and school district responses to changes in the district's exogenous budget constraint and calculate the effects of an increase in state educational expenditures on teacher salaries and class size.