Gender Wage Discrimination in the Turkish Labor Market: Can Turkey Be Part of Europe&quest

Elisabeth Cudeville and Leman Yonca Gurbuzer
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Elisabeth Cudeville: Maison des Sciences Economiques, CES, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 106-112 boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris 75647 Paris Cedex 13, France. E-mails: elisabeth.cudeville@univ-paris1.fr, Leman-Yonca.Gurbuzer@malix.univ-paris1.fr
Leman Yonca Gurbuzer: Maison des Sciences Economiques, CES, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 106-112 boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris 75647 Paris Cedex 13, France. E-mails: elisabeth.cudeville@univ-paris1.fr, Leman-Yonca.Gurbuzer@malix.univ-paris1.fr

Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, vol. 52, issue 3, 429-463

Abstract: This paper proposes an estimate of wage discrimination in Turkey relying on a decomposition of the selectivity corrected gender wage differential using 2003 data. In Turkey, the observed average wage gap in terms of the female wage is 38%, of which 63% can be attributed to discrimination. A comparison with results obtained from European countries, using the same methodology, reveals that even though the raw wage gap in Turkey is surprisingly narrow, close to that observed in France and Italy, the discrimination component is high, comparable to that of Spain and Greece.

Date: 2010
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