Tracking and inequality: The results from Turkey

Bölükbaş, Sema; Gür, Bekir S.

doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2020.102262

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“…Studies show that, when students are placed in schools based on their academic performance, achievement gaps between school types increase (Karaağaç Cingöz & Gür, 2020;Suna et al, 2020a, Suna et al, 2020c. Clustering comparatively low-performing students in a particular school type such as VTAHs leads to higher levels of absenteeism and even school dropout (Bölükbaş & Gür, 2020;Suna et al, 2020a;Suna et al, 2020b). Some VET graduates also attribute their out-of-field employment to low quality education at VET schools, even though the problem only becomes visible in the labor market.…”

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Horizontal Skills Mismatch in Vocational Education in Turkey: The Reasons for Out-of-Field Employment

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Tanberkan²,

Eroğlu³

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As a type of skills mismatch, horizontal skills mismatch (HM) is a particularly important problem for vocational education and training (VET) in Turkey because the majority of VET graduates work in a different field than the one in which they were educated. This study aims to determine the reasons why some VET graduates in Turkey work in fields other than their original field of study. For this purpose, we have employed a sequential mixed-model research design, first conducting face-to-face interviews with 20 VET graduates and then applying a questionnaire to VET graduates that elicited 4,863 responses. The study uses descriptive analysis for the qualitative data from the interviews and an open-ended item from the questionnaire. The qualitative results show the most common reasons for VET graduates' employment out of their field of study to include being unable to find a job in their field of study, low wages, lack of necessary vocational skills, lack of experience, and working conditions. Quantitative results show VET graduates to want to be employed in their field of study and to make significant efforts in finding jobs that match their field. We have concluded HM to be a common problem and all the factors influencing VET graduates' out-of-field employment to be related to a weak relationship between VET and the Turkish labor market.

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Horizontal Skills Mismatch in Vocational Education in Turkey: The Reasons for Out-of-Field Employment

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Eroğlu³

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“…Students are grouped into high school types according to their academic achievement or abilities after compulsory education in most countries. Although school tracking cluster students in different high school types according to their academic achievement, considering the effects of the socioeconomic level on academic achievement, disadvantaged students are tracked based on their socioeconomic status if their disadvantages are not compensated (Bölükbafl & Gür, 2020;Cingöz & Gür, 2020;Hanushek & Woessmann, 2006;Suna et al, 2020aSuna et al, , 2020cSuna, Tanberkan & Özer, 2020d). In this way, disadvantaged students cannot participate in high-performing student communities in early school tracking (Burroughs & Plucker, 2014;Jacobs & Wolbers, 2018).…”

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Impact of Social Networks on the Labor Market Inequalities and School-to-Work Transitions

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Perc²

2021

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Countries invest in education systems in order to increase the quality of their human capital. In this context, it is seen that especially after the expansion of the higher education systems, countries try to increase higher education graduation rates in order to improve the quality of human resources in the labor market. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to facilitate the transitions from school-to-work, and to increase social welfare by meeting the human resources needs of the labor market. The facilitation of school-to-work transitions has a direct impact on youth unemployment. School-to-work transitions are influenced not only by the quality of education from primary to higher education but also by the dynamics of the labor market. Social network analysis can provide important insights into this dynamics, and in doing so reveal that there are indeed many factors that play a key role in determining who gets a job and why, including, first and foremost, social contacts. An analysis of job search channels reveals that partners, friends, and relatives are those social contacts that are most decisive for employment outcomes. Research reveals that employers use social-contact-based reference channels much more frequently than formal channels for recruitment. Thus, employers frequently use such reference channels in recruitment. It has also been shown that the use of social-contact channels reduces employers' costs of finding suitable employees and increases productivity since employees hired through these channels also stay longer in their firms. We here explore the full potential of social network analysis to better our understanding of school-to-work transitions, to reveal in no uncertain terms the importance of social contacts, and to show how these insights can be leveraged to level the labor market for all involved. An important take-home message is that the labor market dynamics is strongly affected by the Matthew effect, such that the inequalities and the gaps between opportunities only grow and widen as the underlying social networks evolve. It is therefore important to mitigate these effects well before school-to-work transitions come into play, namely during the education. In particular, we assert that minimizing the inequalities during education should effectively mitigate the uneven impact of social networks on school-to-work transitions.

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“…Son olarak, Türkiye'de eğitim sistemi ile ilgili temel problemlerden bir tanesini okullar arası başarı farkları oluşturmaktadır (Bölükbaş ve Gür, 2020;Cingöz ve Gür, 2020;Güllüpınar ve İnce, 2014;Oral ve Mcgivney, 2014;Suna, Tanberkan ve Özer, 2020;Suna vd, 2020a;2020b). MEB, bu problemin eğitim sistemi üzerindeki etkisini azaltmak için yıllardan beri çalışmakta ve her geçen gün soruna çok-boyutlu yaklaşan yeni projeler geliştirmektedir (Gençoğlu, 2019;Özer, 2021;Özer, Gençoğlu ve Suna, 2020).…”

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Türkiye’de Özel Yeteneklilere Yetenek Geliştirme Desteğinde Bilim ve Sanat Merkezleri: Mevcut Durum ve İyileştirme Alanları

Özer¹

2021

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Tracking and inequality: The results from Turkey

Cited by 23 publications

References 40 publications

Horizontal Skills Mismatch in Vocational Education in Turkey: The Reasons for Out-of-Field Employment

Horizontal Skills Mismatch in Vocational Education in Turkey: The Reasons for Out-of-Field Employment

Impact of Social Networks on the Labor Market Inequalities and School-to-Work Transitions

Türkiye’de Özel Yeteneklilere Yetenek Geliştirme Desteğinde Bilim ve Sanat Merkezleri: Mevcut Durum ve İyileştirme Alanları

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