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Professional prestige, status, and esteem of educational occupation in Kazakhstan: temporal, regional and gender analysis of payroll data

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Title Professional prestige, status, and esteem of educational occupation in Kazakhstan: temporal, regional and gender analysis of payroll data
 
Creator Tastanbekova, Kuanysh
 
Subject Kazakhstan
Central Asia
educational occupation
payroll
employment
the gender pay gap.
 
Description Since gaining independence after the dissolution of the USSR, the education system in Kazakhstan has undergone significant reformations. Retention of highly qualified teachers is crucial for successful reforms. However, educational occupation that employs almost one million people, the majority of the workforce (26.5%) in the economy, is one of the lowest paying sectors. Low pay causes unpopularity of teaching profession among youth, aging and high feminization of the personnel, harms prestige, status and esteem of teachers and thus intensifies turnover and makes retention of qualified teachers a difficult task. This study proposes to use temporal, spatial and gender three-tiers payroll data to analyze prestige, status, and esteem of educational occupation in Kazakhstan. It argues that while improving a social package is important, fundamental reforms of the payment system in education are likely to be the most effective measure to improve the prestige and status of teachers.
 
Publisher Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
 
Date 2020-08-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Articles
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/345
10.15549/jeecar.v7i2.345
 
Source Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR); Vol 7 No 2 (2020): Journal of Eastern European and Cetral Asian Research ; 175-190
2328-8280
2328-8272
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/345/278
 
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