CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Blazsek, Réka |
|---|---|
| Title | What drives emigration from Hungary? Evidence from teachers' patterns of attrition and emigration |
| Summary | The central topic of this thesis is emigration from Hungary. It focuses on teachers, because they tend to earn less as public sector employees than other, similarly skilled workers in the private sector, making them incentivized to leave their profession either in the form of attrition or emigration. Using a comprehensive administrative dataset spanning between 2003 and 2011, I estimate probability models to examine if the age and earnings of teachers have any effect on their propensity to leave their profession. I find no significant effects with respect to age, but highly significant effects with respect to earnings, confirming the association between earnings, attrition and emigration, and encouraging the thorough reconsideration of the structure and system of public sector wages. |
| Supervisor | Telegdy, Álmos |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/blazsek_reka.pdf |
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