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 …

Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be … addresses the question whether the complementarity between education and training is causal. The identification is based on … exogenous variation in years of education due to a reform of the schooling system and the buildup of universities. Results …

new technology at the workplace. In the preferred analysis we run fixed effects estimations. As a robustness test we also … participants in general but no effects on wages and job mobility for new technology adoption. Furthermore, the combined occurrence … of new technology adoption and of training participation does not make individuals better off in terms of wages or job …

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 …