to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for … in Turkey. -- Returns to Education ; Mincer Equation ; Gender ; Palestine ; Turkey …This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period …

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 …

empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of this paid exemption on the education and labor market outcomes … reduction in education when we implement the same exercises with (i) data on females and (ii) placebo reform dates. The … interpretation is that the reform has reduced the incentives to continue education for the purpose of deferring military service. We …

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

at the lower end of the wage distribution it increased at the top end of wage distribution. Education contributed to … contributing factors to the recent rising within-groups wage inequality. -- Wage Inequality ; Returns to Education ; Quantile …

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there … exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased … estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap …