Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2023-06-22
Number: 23-034/V
Author-Name: Rafiq Friperson
Author-Workplace-Name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Author-Name: Hessel Oosterbeek
Author-Workplace-Name: University of Amsterdam
Author-Name: Bas van der Klaauw
Author-Workplace-Name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: The Hidden Divide: School Segregation of
Teachers in the Netherlands
Abstract: We use Dutch register data to document the understudied phenomenon of teacher
segregation. We show that teachers in primary and secondary schools in the four
largest cities of the country – Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht – are
segregated in terms of their migration and social backgrounds. While segregation
by social background is not much higher than what would be expected under random teacher-school assignment, segregation by migration background is substantial even after accounting for randomness. Relating schools’ teacher composition to
their student composition, we find in most cases that schools with a high proportion
of teachers from a particular background tend to have a high proportion of students
from that same background.
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