Students on the Move, Teachers Too? Teacher Labor Market Responses to Immigrant Student Inflows
Students on the Move, Teachers Too? Teacher Labor Market Responses to Immigrant Student Inflows
Coauthors: Patricio Romero, Hugo Salgado, and Maximiliano Villalobos.
Journal: TBD
First Draft: August 2025
Link to Paper: TBD
Abstract
How do teachers react to a massive arrival of new immigrant students? We combine detailed teacher-level data and student characteristics with an instrumental variable design to show that i) teachers prefer to leave their tenure in response to immigrant students' shocks, ii) tenure length plays a key role on teachers' response, and iii) young and unexperienced teachers are more likely to change to the most proximal school.