Higher Education Policies and Overeducation in Turkey

Nader Habibi ()

No 104, Working Papers from Brandeis University, Department of Economics and International Business School

Abstract: On October 15, 2015 the President of Istanbul University, Professor Mahmut Ak, shocked the attendants in the annual ceremony for the start of the 2015-16 academic year by announcing that student enrollments for current academic year have been reduced1. He further explained that this decision was motivated by the poor job market conditions for university graduates. The difficult labor market for university graduates is not an unnoticed issue in itself but the unemployment rate for university graduates has recently reached unprecedented levels that Turkey has never experienced before. Turkey is one of the few developed countries in which the unemployment rate for workers with university degrees is higher than the rate of less educated workers.

Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2016-04
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