Education and Economic Development

Career and Training in the New Economy: A Study Focused to Small Scale Enterprises Located in OSTIM Organized Industrial Region in Ankara/Turkey

by Hasan H. Aksoy

Reference: Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice
7 (3) • September 2007 • 1067-1084

Türkçesi: Yeni Ekonomi Düzeninde Kariyer ve Eğitim: Ankara OSTİM Organize Sanayi İşyerlerinde Gerçekleştirilen Bir Araştırma Cilt / Sayı:
7/3 Eylül 2007

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe training levels related to careers, employment, and influences... more The purpose of this study was to explore and describe training levels related to careers, employment, and influences of “new economy” in small and mid-sized firms.
The organizational side of career development behaviors was also a focus of this study. Interviews related to company policies and practices were conducted with 26 employers or managers of small and mid-sized firms located in the OSTIM Organized Industrial Region in Ankara, Turkey. This research found it is rare in small and mid-size companies to offer structured workplace training or career development activities for workers. Managers had more interest in workplace training if their companies were required to have quality assurance certifications, or if the company participated in exporting, was involved in customs procedures, or was in a business that
required foreign language skills. Managers indicated very low interest in training related to social, cultural, personal development, and esthetical issues.

The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus

by Francesco Pastore

Co-authored with Alina Verashchagina, in Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (2009, eds.), Labour Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, London (also available as IZA dp, n. 3457).

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates... more Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by looking at the determinants of female labour force participation in 1996 and 2001 (data from the Belarusian Household Survey). The selectivity corrected wage equation is estimated to compute an expected wage offer for women. The latter is included, in the second step, as a regressor in the structural female labour supply equation, estimated by probit. Several measures for the care of children and elderly people, proxies for the opportunity cost of working, affect female participation, but do not generate sample selection mechanisms. The estimated elasticity of female participation to wages is low, at about 0.45 in 1996 and 0.41 in 2001. Moreover the data allows detecting poverty trap mechanisms, whereas women in low-income households have much lower than average participation rates. At the same time the elasticity of female labour supply with respect to the own wage appears to be much higher for the low-paid groups of women.

Employment Sector Employment Working Paper No. 14

by Francesco Pastore

The Effect of an Economic Crisis on Educational Outcomes: An Economic Framework and Review of the Evidence

by M. Najeeb Shafiq

Household schooling and child labor decisions in rural Bangladesh

by M. Najeeb Shafiq

Can school incentives and accountability improve skills in the Middle East and North Africa? The cases of Jordan and Tunisia

by M. Najeeb Shafiq

A reversal of educational fortune? Educational gender gaps in Bangladesh

by M. Najeeb Shafiq

Household rates of return to education in rural Bangladesh: Accounting for direct costs, child labour, and option value

by M. Najeeb Shafiq

The Mass Production of Credentials: Subsidies and the Rise of the Higher Education Industry

by Carl L Bankston

Early Childhood Report to Mayor Dean - Nashville

by Hunter Schimpff

Served as staff member & staff author to help compile the Committee's report. Co-written with Amanda Taylor. Technical assistance from Laura McComas - NLC.

This report closely examines the layer of policies and programs -- local, state, federal, and community-based -- that... more This report closely examines the layer of policies and programs -- local, state, federal, and community-based -- that affect early childhood education and development for Nashville-Davidson County children. Neuroscience has shown that the early years, ages 0-5, are a critical window for brain development and growth.

What happens in these years for individual students and every year's cohort of children has an important impact on educational success in the K-12 system, higher education system, and human capital quality for the local workforce and economy in future years.

Please click "view on Nashville.gov" below to see the report.

Human Capital Policies in Tennessee: Early Childhood Matters

by Hunter Schimpff

power point presentation

State human capital policy in Tennessee tends to neglect components of early childhood policy and practice, which are... more State human capital policy in Tennessee tends to neglect components of early childhood policy and practice, which are critical to overall success.  As a result, the quality of workforce in Tennessee, economic development, and the state's competitiveness stagnates in the short, medium, and long term.  State policies may be misaligned, causing resource over-allocations to higher education, public safety, and the corrections system.

Human Capital Policies in Tennessee: Early Childhood Matters - notes

by Hunter Schimpff

corresponding notes to power point presentation

Your Money or Your Life: John McMurtry and Martha Nussbaum on the For-profit Assault upon Life-capabilities

by Giorgio Baruchello

Discussion paper published in the opening issue of the Japan-based Journal of Philosophy of Life. I believe that the recent incident in Fukushyma makes these reflections of mine even more relevant to their concerns.

Philosophical reflections by John McMurtry and Martha Nussbaum are presented in this article qua projections of the... more Philosophical reflections by John McMurtry and Martha Nussbaum are presented in this article qua projections of the capabilities approach to life that has been developing in the humanities and social sciences over the past twenty-five years. In particular, it is shown how both McMurtry and Nussbaum reveal that human life is under attack not solely because of the eco-biological collapse denounced by the world’s scientific community at its highest levels, but also in many of those
socially evolved civil commons that contribute  to the flourishing of life’s capabilities and, in essence, make life worth living. What is more, a common causal root is found behind this ongoing
two-pronged assault upon life capabilities, that is to  say, the defining search for ever-increasing profits of the global free-market economy.