Returns to education and wages in Turkey: robust and resistant regression

Güri̇ş, Selahattin; Akay, Ebru Çağlayan

doi:10.1007/s11135-011-9453-x

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“…In 2004 for both females and males, their estimates are higher than our 2017 estimates. In contrast, Güriş and Çağlayan (2012) find estimates in 2003 and 2006 for females and males much lower than our 2017 estimates. Tansel and Bodur (2012) report similar overall estimates of around 8% for 1994 and 2002 which are similar to ours.…”

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confidence: 96%

Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods

Psacharopoulos

Tansel

2020

Applied Economics

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This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labour Force Survey (latest available at the time of writing) 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% for higher education and a social return of 10%. Using the number of children younger than age 15 in the household as an exclusion restriction, sample selection correction is applied, and it shows that the returns to education for females are higher than those for males. Contrary to many findings in other countries, private returns to those working in the public sector are higher than those in the private sector, and private returns to those who followed the vocational track in secondary education are higher than those in the general academic track. The paper discusses the policy implications of the findings.

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Section: Earnings Function Estimatescontrasting

confidence: 96%

Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods

Psacharopoulos

Tansel

2020

Applied Economics

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“…In literature, there are many studies in which returns to education and experience were analyzed by utilizing Mincer equations. Some of those studies are Bargain, Bhaumik, Chakrabarty, and Zhao (2007), Fiaschi and Gabbriellini (2013), Güriş and Çağlayan (2012), Krafft, Branson, and Flak (2019), Lee and Lee (2006), Montenegro and Patrinos (2014), Psacharopoulos and Patrinos (2018), Rizk (2016), Tansel and Bircan (2004).. In these studies, different econometric models have been used.…”

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confidence: 99%

The causal effects of education on wages: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Akay

Oskonbaeva

Sacakli-Sacildi

2019

EJEM

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This study uses a Mincerian earnings function to estimate the effect of education and experience on the wages of women working in developed business and trade center of Bishkek, Kyrgyztan. It employs a robust median regression and M Regression to estimate the functions for both public and private sectors. The paper also estimates the function using a least squared regression for comparison. Findings/Originality: The results show that returns to education for women employees in the private sector are higher than that of in the public sector. In contrast, the returns to experience for women employees in the public sector are higher than those in the private sector. The study reveals that schooling has strong causal effects on wages. Therefore, the government should give sufficient priority to education. Every Som spent in quality education generates strong positive returns for the whole economy. So that Kyrgyz government should put more efforts to enable individuals staying longer in education.

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“…Other variables such as gender, marital status, occupation, region, firm size can be used in this regression model. Earnings, years of schooling and years of experience are three key regressors in the Mincerian wage model while other regressors are added to the model (Güriş andÇağlayan 2012: 1409).…”

Section: Mincerian Wage Equation and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The achieved findings demonstrated that returns to education change across the different sectors and there exists an important heterogeneity in returns to different schooling levels. Güriş and Çağlayan (2012) analysed differences in returns to education in the years 2003 and 2006 in Turkey. The findings concluded that schooling has an impact on wages for both male and female workers.…”

Section: Mincerian Wage Equation and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Estimating returns to education: The control function approach

Keçili

Esen

2022

jame

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This study aims to evaluate the effect of schooling years on wage level in Turkey by using the Mincer wage equation. This function is used as the baseline for the investigation of earnings determinants. For this purpose, the relationship between wage and education level of people is estimated by using a semiparametric regression model considering the control function approach. Various variables such as education level, experience, gender and marital status are estimated separately in the wage model by utilizing the Household Budget Statistics micro data set of 2017 in Turkey obtained by the Turkish Statistical Institute. The parametric model does not clarify the model clearly when functional form of relation is not known. To overcome this drawback, semiparametric regression model, which contains parametric and nonparametric variables, can be successfully applied. This model is extended by adding the 1997 education reform as a control variable. The achieved semiparametric test results from this study showed that there is a positive relationship between schooling years and wage level. On the other hand, control function approach results indicate the existence of fluctuant progress for the effect of schooling years on the wage level along the period.

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Returns to education and wages in Turkey: robust and resistant regression

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods

Private and Social Returns to Investment in Education: the Case of Turkey with Alternative Methods

The causal effects of education on wages: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Estimating returns to education: The control function approach

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