Services were neglected due to the fact that A.Smith, one of the pioneers of Economics, described services as nonproductive endeavor. After it was understood that studying services was neglected unnecessarily and this sector could play an initiator role for economic development, studies pertaining services accelerated. Recently, new theories and approaches which acquire new dimensions and concentrate on the impacts of economic and technical changes such as technological developments, complicating production structure, changing value concept and maintaining the unity of systems have been developed. One of these approaches is that technological developments improve services sector. In this study, some changes which have been caused by technological developments in service sector are analyzed in a theoretical framework. In the conclusion part, it is stated that technological developments have improved and elaborated the service sector which was neglected for a long time and as a consequence of this, constituted the postproduction service composition.
The rise in the living standards in most of the world, the rise in population and schooling rates have increased the demand for higher education. The attribution of semi public property becomes determinant to decide whom will provide the supply and the production in semi public properties is realized by means of a supply and demand mechanism. The supply of higher education is mostly secured in accordance with the public demand as well as the resources available. In addition, the fact that higher education services have produced significant benefits has led to over demand. This situation relates to a simple economic rule that a commodity or service which costs almost nothing or little will increase until the mariginal benefit of its demand equals to 0 or almost 0. However, the educational supply and demand is difficult to identify in accordance to the supply and demand and balance of price as observed in the economic theory. The high profits that would be attracted in the future are significant factors influencing individual's decisions for investment. The decision for investment depends on the possible return in the future, the cost of investment, and the current interest rates. Higher education with investment purposes is influenced by these three factors and higher education is demanded more and more by individuals on the expectation that they will gain high profits In theory, it is accepted that the basic factors identifying the demand for higher education are in harmony with empirical research results in several countries including Turkey.
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