Public-Private Employment Choice: Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey

Aysit Tansel ()

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Abstract: There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey. Selectivity corrected wage equations are estimated for each sector for men and women separately. Oaxaca decomposition of the wage differentials between sectors for men and women is carried out. For this purpose, results of the 1994 Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the State Institute of Statistics are used. Results indicate that when controlled for observed characteristics and sample selection, for men, public administration wages are at parity or lower than private sector wages in particular at the university level.

Keywords: EMPLOYMENT; PUBLIC SECTOR; PRIVATE SECTOR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J45 J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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