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The causal effects of education on wages: evidence from Kyrgyzstan

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  • Ebru Caglayan Akay
  • Zamira Oskonbaeva
  • Irem Sacakli-Sacildi

    (Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
    Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Biskek, Kyrgyzstan
    Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey)

Abstract

This sudy uses a Mincerian earnings function to estimate the effect of education and experience on the wages of women working in developed business and trade center of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. It employs a robust median regression and M Regression to estimate the fuctions for both public and private sectors. The paper also estimates the fuction using a least squared regression for comparisson. Finding/Originality: The results show that returns to education for women employees in private sector are higher than that of in the public sector. In contrast, the returns to experience for women employees in the public sector are higher than those in the private sector. The study reveals that schooling has strong causal effects on wages. Therefore, the goverment should give sufficient priority to education. Every Som spent in quality education generates strong positive returns for the whole economy. so that Kyrgyz government should put more efforts to enable individuals staying longer in education

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  • Ebru Caglayan Akay & Zamira Oskonbaeva & Irem Sacakli-Sacildi, 2019. "The causal effects of education on wages: evidence from Kyrgyzstan," Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, Universitas Islam Indonesia, vol. 11(2), pages 183-194, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:uii:journl:v:11:y:2019:i:2:p:183-194
    DOI: 10.20885/ejem.vol11.iss2.art6
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    Cited by:

    1. Rebecca Mitchell & Yun Shen & Lan Snell, 2022. "The future of work: a systematic literature review," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 62(2), pages 2667-2686, June.
    2. Sorin Tudor & Teodor Florin Cilan & Luiza Loredana Năstase & Mihaela Loredana Ecobici & Elena Rodica Opran & Andrei Valentin Cojocaru, 2023. "Evolution of Interdependencies between Education and the Labor Market in the View of Sustainable Development and Investment in the Educational System," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-24, February.

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    Keywords

    returns to education; wage distribution; women employee; mincer equation;
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    JEL classification:

    • C4 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics
    • C2 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs

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