Avaliação dos salários dos professores da rede pública de ensino fundamental em tempos de FUNDEF

Abstract

This article aims to evaluate the impact of FUNDEF on elementary public school teachers' wages. To evaluate the effects of FUNDEF implementation on wages we compare wage differentials of elementary public school teachers with wage differentials of three control groups: private school teachers, private sector employees and civil servants. Results indicate average positive impacts on elementary public school teachers' wages. Impacts vary among regions and depend if the school is under municipal or state govemment. For northeast municipal schools wages increases from 26% to 51,62%, on the other hand, for south state schools wages may show decrease of 10,78% up to an increase of 0,8%. In general, FUNDEF seems to benefit poorer regions, smaller cities and seems to work as a way to reduce wage inequality among elementary public school teachers.