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Few reminders on the Czech situation!

Decentralization and the quality of teaching: Accompanying evidence from the Czech Republic

DANIEL MÜNICH

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Share of 15 years old who aspire to become teacher [%]in the upper and lower half of math test score

distributionSource: OECD PISA 2006 and own computations

Horní polovina Spodní polovina

Teacher’s salaries at the lower secondary level relative to other tertiary educated workers [>15 years of experience]

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Share of tertiary educated workers (non-teachers) with salaries below average salaries of

primary school teachers (by age)

2006 2008 2010 20110%

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75%

100%

20-2930-3940-4950-5960+

Zdroj: own computations based on ISPV

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