Turkey : Evaluating the Impact of Iskur's Vocational Training Programs
Turkey's economic performance during the 2000s is a global success story; high-income status is now within reach but this will require creating more and better jobs. Upgrading the skills of the current labor force is crucial for creating more...
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| Format: | Other Education Study |
| Language: | English en_US |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/08/19151577/turkey-evaluating-impact-iskurs-vocational-training-programs-vol-1-2-final-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17561 |
| Summary: | Turkey's economic performance
during the 2000s is a global success story; high-income
status is now within reach but this will require creating
more and better jobs. Upgrading the skills of the current
labor force is crucial for creating more and better jobs.
The Turkish Employment Agency (ISKUR) plays a leading role
in upgrading the skills of jobseekers and facilitating their
access to productive employment by providing vocational
training and other employment support services. The
increasing importance of ISKUR vocational training prompted
the government to commission the present study to evaluate
its impact and to identify ways to enhance it. The study
evaluates the main type of ISKUR's vocational training
courses at a particular point in time, and thus it does not
take into account recent reforms. The study evaluates a
representative sample of general vocational training
courses, which account for about two thirds of ISKUR
vocational trainees (the other one-third mostly take courses
on demand by employers) that took place between December
2010 and June 2011. The evaluation has an experimental
design, exploiting the excess demand for ISKUR vocational
training courses to randomly assign eligible training
applicants into those who receive training (treatment group)
and those who do not (control group). The study makes use of
the findings from this evaluation, complemented by evidence
from other countries, to suggest a number of policy options
to further strengthen the impact of ISKUR training and
services. In this context, this report is structured as
follows: section one gives the context: jobs, skills
upgrading, and ISKUR; section two presents evaluation of
ISKUR training programs: design, data, and methods; section
three presents evaluation of ISKUR training programs:
results; and section four gives strengthening the impact of
ISKUR training and services. |
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