Policy Issues to Address Geographical Imbalance of Workers

The shortage of public sector teachers in rural areas is one of the main challenges facing policy makers in the education sector in both developing and developed countries. This study sought to analyze the preferences of teachers and how they would respond to alternative incentive job packages associated with working in a rural location. Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) which is rooted in Random Utility Theory (RUT) was used to capture the responses of teacher trainees in Ghana.