This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994- 2002 period in Turkey by estimating … Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined … at the lower end of the wage distribution it increased at the top end of wage distribution. Education contributed to …

This paper examines the rate of return to education in Sudan. One advantage and interesting element in our analysis in … this paper is that we explain three stylised facts on the rate of return to education using new primary data in Sudan …: first, positive but low rate of return to education and correlations between education, experience, its square and wages for …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

This paper examines the gender gap in education and investigates the related implications on the labour market and … returns to education in Sudan. Our results confirm two stylized facts: first, the incidence of significant gender gap in … education in Sudan and second, the incidence of gender inequalities and gap in skill level, share of women in economic …

This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … than 2004 levels for all levels of education; the pattern is less obvious for Turkey across the various levels. However … provided first for average returns to education second for returns at different levels of schooling and finally for returns by …

In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated …. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support … instruments based on the exogenous timing of the implementation and withdrawal of free primary education across regions in this …

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope …

Using data for the 1990’s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our …

This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use … instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education … results suggest that higher-ability individuals have higher wages, but the slope of their wage-education prole is atter than …

An emerging body of literature examines the economic returns to quality of postsecondary education. This literature has … and postsecondary education to labor market outcomes, allowing us to track the complete educational and professional paths … postsecondary education leads to a significant earnings premium for academically marginal students. …