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This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor … Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education … by three years as an instrument. This results in a private rate of return on the order of 16 percent for higher education …
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The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …
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In 1999, a reform of education was implemented in Poland, which added one year to the shortest available educational … path, leading to the acquisition of basic vocational education. In the new system, students choosing this path acquire one … more year of general education, which, according to the authors of the reform, should improve the student's position in the …
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education closures to estimate the loss in marginal future earnings. The findings show that the school closures reduce future …
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
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In this paper we investigate whether human capital accumulation, during adolescence, depends on home investments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) equipment. Using micro-level data, for children aged 17-18 years old, drawn from the Greek part of the European Union Statistics on...
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on youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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Schools are ripe for policy intervention. We demonstrate that implementing different teaching practices is effective, finding a greater prevalence of group discussion used in schools positively affects students’ life satisfaction and noncognitive skills but has no impact on test scores. The...
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We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the empirical work yields new insights that go beyond the...
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-2005. We find that only the HEI graduates obtain a wage premium from skills acquired in the course of formal education. This …
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