The Substitute Teachers Shuffle Around Looking for Work in Multiple a Year －From the Viewpoint of Transaction cost

Along with low birth rates and limited government budget, the average rate of substitute teachers is 8% in Taiwan and the maximum rate is approaching 20% in New Taipei City, elementary schools and substitute teachers spend on a lot of transaction costs which seeking working partners more than once a year generated. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the type, amount and the cause of transaction cost in schools and substitute teachers; moreover, understanding the condition of transaction cost would help schools and teachers lower it; as a result, they would pay more attention on education. This study used depth interview and field research. The respondents were eleven person who are important in the school, and ten substitute teachers. There are different type of schools which are a variety of scale and locations and substitute teachers who are having different experience and qualifications. The consequence showed that the smooth operations and successful leadership would lower the transaction cost in schools; on the other hand, longer qualifications, well-connections, more specialty would lower transaction cost in substitute teachers. Therefore, the government should give assistant to schools to operate smoothly, giving assistant to substitute teachers to adapt environment; as a result, overall transaction cost would be lower.