Courtesy of IZA Teacher markets, like most public sector labor markets, are often characterized by a large bureaucracy and lack of flexibility. Teacher pay typically follows schedules tied to tenure and does not reward teaching performance. What happens when such heavily regulated labor markets […]
Tag: education
Tories get in touch with their spendy side
While Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson isn’t afraid to utter the c-word — that’s “capitalism” — in pleasant contrast to his immediate predecessors, his government seems to be steering away from other longstanding Tory principles, namely those of fiscal responsibility and small government. So […]
Abolishing private schools is a bad idea (and impossible)
Labour’s plan to, in effect, abolish Britain’s private schools is pretty much the definition of pandering — a sensational and nakedly political sop to class resentment that is nonetheless counterproductive, unworkable and oh yes, probably illegal. Sure, nobody likes the British upper class (not […]
Johnson actually concerned about electability
The straw-haired aspiring Churchill isn’t just the rumbustious buffoon he’s often made out to be (although he is that too, oh yes… and some would have you believe he is a threat to the UK’s constitutional order for having the Queen dismiss parliament to get […]