Michael Podgursky
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1062005 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Podgursky |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Podgursky |
| ASSINATURA | PODGURSKY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Missouri |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
High School Preparation and Post-Secondary Educational Attainment Disparities
Using four cohorts of first-time 9th -grade students in Missouri public high schools, we investigate how degree attainment trajectories diverge by race/ethnic-by-gender groups, pre-college academic readiness, and college selectivity. We find large racial/ethnic academic readiness gaps. Overall college enrollment rates are higher for Black students with average readiness and below, but this advantage disappears for degree completion. Hispanic-Whit…
Teacher Pensions
This article provides an overview for the special issue and a framework for thinking about the included papers. We begin by explaining why teacher pensions is a topic that should be of interest to the broader education research community and not just specialists in school finance or teacher compensation. Pension costs now account for 11% of K–12 operating expenditures—a share that has been steadily rising. The question for the education research …
Benefit or Burden? On the Intergenerational Inequity of Teacher Pension Plans
Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative microdata from four states, combined with national pension funding data, we show these plans have accumulated substantial unfunded liabilities—effectively debt—owing to previous plan operations. On average across 49 state plans, an amount that exceeds 10% of current teachers’ earnings is being set aside to pay for previously a…
Teacher Pension Systems, the Composition of the Teaching Workforce, and Teacher Quality
Introduction to the Special Issue on From Equity to Adequacy to Choice
A New Defendant at the Table
Like many other states, Missouri has gone through several rounds of school finance litigation. However, the trial just concluded was unusual in two respects. First, three taxpayers were allowed to intervene for the defense and, in the process, raise important questions concerning the efficiency of school spending and broader questions of school reform. Second, the outcome at the circuit court level, which focused nearly entirely on points of law,…
Teacher performance pay
Credentials Versus Performance
In this article we examine the economic case for merit or performance-based pay for K–12 teachers. We review several areas of germane research. The direct evaluation literature on these incentive plans is slender; highly diverse in terms of methodology, targeted populations, and programs evaluated; and primarily focused on short-run motivational effects. It is nonetheless fairly consistent in finding positive program effects. The general personne…
Teaching is not medicine
Teacher Licensing in U.S. Public Schools
Discussions of teacher quality in U.S. public schools have tended to focus on teacher licensing. Reformers from diverse perspectives have proposed "raising the bar" for licensing by various means (e.g., harder licensing exams, more coursework, graduation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education teacher-training programs, elimination of emergency or provisional licensing). However, all of these proposals assume that teacher…
Teacher recruitment and retention in public and private schools
Private school salaries are substantially below those in public school systems. Nonetheless, private school heads are as satisfied as public school principals with the quality of their new teachers and substantially more satisfied with their experienced instructors. This difference remains after controlling for school and community characteristics and for the principal's tenure and educational priorities. In addition, appraisals of experienced an…
Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality
Uda Schultz of SAVIS Educational Systems, Inc., and Inez Bos worth of the Educational Testing Service.Finally, we are indebted to the W
Teachers' Attitudes toward Merit Pay
This examination of data from the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey challenges the common supposition that most teachers oppose merit pay. The authors find that teachers in districts that use merit pay do not seem demoralized by the system or hostile toward it, and teachers of disadvantaged and low-achieving students are generally supportive of merit pay. Private school teachers favor merit pay more than do public school teachers, a difference …
The Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration
Econometric analysis of duration data raises difficult issues of statistical inference. Building on the work of Prentice (1974) and Farewell and Prentice (1977), Addison and Portugal (1987; henceforth, AP) use the extended generalized gamma (EGG) distribution to test the sensitivity of regression estimates to more restrictive distributional assumptions which frequently have been imposed by other studies. AP find that these restrictions are reject…
Job Loss and Job Change
All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more restrained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific context of plant closings and relocations, although our …
Computer Chips and Paper Clips
1 Front Matter 2 I. Overview Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives 3 II. Case Studies of Women Workers and Information Technology The Technological Transformation of White-Collar Work: A Case Study of the Insurance Industry 4 Machines Instead of Clerks: Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, 1910-1950 5 New Technology and Office Tradition: The Not-So-Changing World of the Secretary 6 Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women…
Job Displacement and Earnings Loss
Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey, a special supplement to the January 1984 Current Population Survey, the authors estimate a model of reemployment earnings for workers displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs between January 1979 and January 1984. Median losses for workers reemployed full-time were not large, but a sizable minority of that group-mostly workers with substantial specific human capital investments-experienced large a…
Unions, Establishment Size, and Intra-Industry Threat Effects
Using a sample of data on private-sector production workers from a May-June 1979 matched Current Population Survey, this study finds that whether a worker is covered by a union contract, and the proportion of an industry's production workers covered by union contracts, have significantly different effects on worker earnings across establishments of different size. The pattern of findings suggests that large nonunion employers tend to match the un…
Full Employment and Public Policy
Job Displacement and Earnings Loss
Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey, a special supplement to the January 1984 Current Population Survey, the authors estimate a model of reemployment earnings for workers displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs between January 1979 and January 1984. Median losses for workers reemployed full-time were not large, but a sizable minority of that group-mostly workers with substantial specific human capital investments-experienced large a…
Unions, Establishment Size, and Intra-Industry Threat Effects
Using a sample of data on private-sector production workers from a May-June 1979 matched Current Population Survey, this study finds that whether a worker is covered by a union contract, and the proportion of an industry's production workers covered by union contracts, have significantly different effects on worker earnings across establishments of different size. The pattern of findings suggests that large nonunion employers tend to match the un…
Teacher Pension Systems, the Composition of the Teaching Workforce, and Teacher Quality
Teachers' Attitudes toward Merit Pay
This examination of data from the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey challenges the common supposition that most teachers oppose merit pay. The authors find that teachers in districts that use merit pay do not seem demoralized by the system or hostile toward it, and teachers of disadvantaged and low-achieving students are generally supportive of merit pay. Private school teachers favor merit pay more than do public school teachers, a difference …
Benefit or Burden? On the Intergenerational Inequity of Teacher Pension Plans
Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative microdata from four states, combined with national pension funding data, we show these plans have accumulated substantial unfunded liabilities—effectively debt—owing to previous plan operations. On average across 49 state plans, an amount that exceeds 10% of current teachers’ earnings is being set aside to pay for previously a…
Credentials Versus Performance
In this article we examine the economic case for merit or performance-based pay for K–12 teachers. We review several areas of germane research. The direct evaluation literature on these incentive plans is slender; highly diverse in terms of methodology, targeted populations, and programs evaluated; and primarily focused on short-run motivational effects. It is nonetheless fairly consistent in finding positive program effects. The general personne…
Teacher Pensions
This article provides an overview for the special issue and a framework for thinking about the included papers. We begin by explaining why teacher pensions is a topic that should be of interest to the broader education research community and not just specialists in school finance or teacher compensation. Pension costs now account for 11% of K–12 operating expenditures—a share that has been steadily rising. The question for the education research …
Teacher Licensing in U.S. Public Schools
Discussions of teacher quality in U.S. public schools have tended to focus on teacher licensing. Reformers from diverse perspectives have proposed "raising the bar" for licensing by various means (e.g., harder licensing exams, more coursework, graduation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education teacher-training programs, elimination of emergency or provisional licensing). However, all of these proposals assume that teacher…
A New Defendant at the Table
Like many other states, Missouri has gone through several rounds of school finance litigation. However, the trial just concluded was unusual in two respects. First, three taxpayers were allowed to intervene for the defense and, in the process, raise important questions concerning the efficiency of school spending and broader questions of school reform. Second, the outcome at the circuit court level, which focused nearly entirely on points of law,…
Full Employment and Public Policy
Unions, Establishment Size, and Intra-Industry Threat Effects
Using a sample of data on private-sector production workers from a May-June 1979 matched Current Population Survey, this study finds that whether a worker is covered by a union contract, and the proportion of an industry's production workers covered by union contracts, have significantly different effects on worker earnings across establishments of different size. The pattern of findings suggests that large nonunion employers tend to match the un…
Job Loss and Job Change
All three papers deal with important policy issues. Ruhm, whose analysis ranges the most widely, goes furthest in recommending policy activism. Podgursky and Swaim (P&S) are somewhat more restrained, but it is clear that they too favor special assistance for displaced workers. In our own paper we see advantage in workers being given notification of their impending redundancy in the specific context of plant closings and relocations, although our …
Computer Chips and Paper Clips
1 Front Matter 2 I. Overview Technology, Women, and Work: Policy Perspectives 3 II. Case Studies of Women Workers and Information Technology The Technological Transformation of White-Collar Work: A Case Study of the Insurance Industry 4 Machines Instead of Clerks: Technology and the Feminization of Bookkeeping, 1910-1950 5 New Technology and Office Tradition: The Not-So-Changing World of the Secretary 6 Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women…
Job Displacement and Earnings Loss
Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey, a special supplement to the January 1984 Current Population Survey, the authors estimate a model of reemployment earnings for workers displaced from full-time nonagricultural jobs between January 1979 and January 1984. Median losses for workers reemployed full-time were not large, but a sizable minority of that group-mostly workers with substantial specific human capital investments-experienced large a…
The Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration
Econometric analysis of duration data raises difficult issues of statistical inference. Building on the work of Prentice (1974) and Farewell and Prentice (1977), Addison and Portugal (1987; henceforth, AP) use the extended generalized gamma (EGG) distribution to test the sensitivity of regression estimates to more restrictive distributional assumptions which frequently have been imposed by other studies. AP find that these restrictions are reject…
Teachers' Attitudes toward Merit Pay
This examination of data from the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey challenges the common supposition that most teachers oppose merit pay. The authors find that teachers in districts that use merit pay do not seem demoralized by the system or hostile toward it, and teachers of disadvantaged and low-achieving students are generally supportive of merit pay. Private school teachers favor merit pay more than do public school teachers, a difference …
Teacher recruitment and retention in public and private schools
Private school salaries are substantially below those in public school systems. Nonetheless, private school heads are as satisfied as public school principals with the quality of their new teachers and substantially more satisfied with their experienced instructors. This difference remains after controlling for school and community characteristics and for the principal's tenure and educational priorities. In addition, appraisals of experienced an…
Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality
Uda Schultz of SAVIS Educational Systems, Inc., and Inez Bos worth of the Educational Testing Service.Finally, we are indebted to the W
Teaching is not medicine
Teacher Licensing in U.S. Public Schools
Discussions of teacher quality in U.S. public schools have tended to focus on teacher licensing. Reformers from diverse perspectives have proposed "raising the bar" for licensing by various means (e.g., harder licensing exams, more coursework, graduation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education teacher-training programs, elimination of emergency or provisional licensing). However, all of these proposals assume that teacher…
Teacher performance pay
Credentials Versus Performance
In this article we examine the economic case for merit or performance-based pay for K–12 teachers. We review several areas of germane research. The direct evaluation literature on these incentive plans is slender; highly diverse in terms of methodology, targeted populations, and programs evaluated; and primarily focused on short-run motivational effects. It is nonetheless fairly consistent in finding positive program effects. The general personne…
Introduction to the Special Issue on From Equity to Adequacy to Choice
A New Defendant at the Table
Like many other states, Missouri has gone through several rounds of school finance litigation. However, the trial just concluded was unusual in two respects. First, three taxpayers were allowed to intervene for the defense and, in the process, raise important questions concerning the efficiency of school spending and broader questions of school reform. Second, the outcome at the circuit court level, which focused nearly entirely on points of law,…
Teacher Pension Systems, the Composition of the Teaching Workforce, and Teacher Quality
Benefit or Burden? On the Intergenerational Inequity of Teacher Pension Plans
Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative microdata from four states, combined with national pension funding data, we show these plans have accumulated substantial unfunded liabilities—effectively debt—owing to previous plan operations. On average across 49 state plans, an amount that exceeds 10% of current teachers’ earnings is being set aside to pay for previously a…
Teacher Pensions
This article provides an overview for the special issue and a framework for thinking about the included papers. We begin by explaining why teacher pensions is a topic that should be of interest to the broader education research community and not just specialists in school finance or teacher compensation. Pension costs now account for 11% of K–12 operating expenditures—a share that has been steadily rising. The question for the education research …
High School Preparation and Post-Secondary Educational Attainment Disparities
Using four cohorts of first-time 9th -grade students in Missouri public high schools, we investigate how degree attainment trajectories diverge by race/ethnic-by-gender groups, pre-college academic readiness, and college selectivity. We find large racial/ethnic academic readiness gaps. Overall college enrollment rates are higher for Black students with average readiness and below, but this advantage disappears for degree completion. Hispanic-Whit…
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