Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey: A Comparative Analysis

Aysıt Tansel () and Yousef Daoud

Chapter 2 in Women, Work and Welfare in the Middle East and North Africa:The Role of Socio-demographics, Entrepreneurship and Public Policies, 2016, pp 33-56 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This study compares the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Alhough educational enrollment ratios are similar in both countries, the labor force participation of women is much lower in Palestine: such structural differences are likely to affect labor market outcomes especially along gender lines. In both countries, the results show high returns to an additional year of education at the two-year tertiary and the university levels. The returns to education are higher for females than for males in both countries, although the gender gap is larger in Palestine than in Turkey. In Turkey, with its open borders and stronger export potential, private-sector capacity is much greater than in Palestine. Workers in Turkey earn higher returns to education in both the formal and informal private sectors than do workers in Palestine, whose labor market is dominated by the government sector and the international organizations. Overall, the results imply that years of schooling and experience explain wages better in Turkey than in Palestine, and that within Palestine they explain wages better for women samples than for men.

Keywords: Middle East and North Africa; Women's Welfare; Gender Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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