High school teachers in Northeast Brazil: migration and commuting between 2013 and 2017

Abstract

This article aims to analyze migration and commuting trends of high school teachers in the Brazilian Northeast, from 2013 to 2017, observing the complementarity role between those two types of mobility, sex and age selectivity, and the association between migration and employment contract changes. We used School Censuses data from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), which allow the longitudinal monitoring of teachers who remained in the educational system during the analyzed period and the observation of their spatial trajectory. The results show the selectivity effect, the differential complementarity role of migration and commuting among states, and the association between employment contract changes and migration. Additionally, the results point to the precarious situation of the teaching career when observed migration flows associated with contract switch, from tenure to temporary teacher, and present scenarios that demand new and more in-depth studies.