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of these factors over time. Policies are necessary to improve equality of opportunity in education in Turkey. …This study investigates inequality of opportunity in educational achievements in Turkey over time. For this purpose we … achievement in Turkey. Second, the inequality of opportunity in educational achievement shows a slightly decreasing trend over …
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-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of low SES children and reduce inequality of opportunity. Low SES …
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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes agents to have model-consistent beliefs and to avoid systematic prediction errors. In reality, justi cation and identification of expectations are nontrivial. One way to solve this problem is...
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Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
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Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. We study how the tax-and-transfer system o sets inequalities in lifetime earnings, which would otherwise translate into differences in living standards. Based on a life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes...
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This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of … public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The nature of the private tutoring and its relation … to the two national selection examinations in Turkey are also discussed. …
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Education systems can be viewed as complex systems, by considering that learning, teaching, cognition and education are … education systems, new approaches seem relevant, and even necessary, if we consider that traditional methods are often not … complex system approach in education, and to bring to discussion the potential benefits of this perspective to education in …
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mobility together for a developing country Turkey which is one of the countries having most unequal income distributions. The …
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This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing … analyses of wage inequality and wage mobility over various socioeconomic groups such as gender, age, education and sector of …
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