TY - JOUR
T1 - School choice, institutional environments and the precarisation of teachers' working conditions in not-for-profit charter schools
AU - Pineda, Pedro
AU - Salazar Morales, Diego Alonso
AU - Celis, Jorge
N1 - Funding Information:
Pedro Pineda wrote this work while supported by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung under Grant number Az. 40.18.0.003SOO. Diego wrote this paper while funded by the DAAD Research Grant number 57381412 for the project “Patterns Towards Effective Policy Implementation in Latin America.”
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - This article explores the effects of charter schools on teachers’ working conditions in Bogota (Colombia). By employing a semi-experimental approach involving Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Difference-in-Differences (DID), we find that in the close vicinity (postcode area) of where they are established, charter schools more than double teachers’ workload for a comparatively small increase in salaries. In light of a neo-institutional approach, we argue that those advocating for the diversification of school types in Colombia have decoupled the presumed benefits of charter schools’ competition from their actual negative effects for teachers. Moreover, we also point out that despite charter schools in Colombia (Bogota) having a not-for-profit status, existing labour flexibilisation policies have exerted isomorphic pressures on them, forcing them to adopt short-term contracts and thus leading to ravaging competition practices among teachers. Overall, we contend that the introduction of charter schools in Colombia (Bogota) has led to a general precarisation of teachers’ working conditions.
AB - This article explores the effects of charter schools on teachers’ working conditions in Bogota (Colombia). By employing a semi-experimental approach involving Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Difference-in-Differences (DID), we find that in the close vicinity (postcode area) of where they are established, charter schools more than double teachers’ workload for a comparatively small increase in salaries. In light of a neo-institutional approach, we argue that those advocating for the diversification of school types in Colombia have decoupled the presumed benefits of charter schools’ competition from their actual negative effects for teachers. Moreover, we also point out that despite charter schools in Colombia (Bogota) having a not-for-profit status, existing labour flexibilisation policies have exerted isomorphic pressures on them, forcing them to adopt short-term contracts and thus leading to ravaging competition practices among teachers. Overall, we contend that the introduction of charter schools in Colombia (Bogota) has led to a general precarisation of teachers’ working conditions.
KW - charter schools
KW - employment problems
KW - semi-experimental
KW - teacher employment
KW - temporary employment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85121705292&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01425692.2021.2011707
DO - 10.1080/01425692.2021.2011707
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121705292
SN - 0142-5692
VL - 43
SP - 237
EP - 259
JO - British Journal of Sociology of Education
JF - British Journal of Sociology of Education
IS - 2
ER -