Has the gender wage gap narrowed or widened in a decade? Some recent evidence from the Turkish labor market

Fulden Kömüryakan () and Metehan Yılgör ()
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Fulden Kömüryakan: Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University
Metehan Yılgör: Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University

Journal of Applied Microeconometrics, 2021, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: The principal objective of this study is to determine the variation in the gender wage gap in the last decade of the Turkish labor market and to reveal possible factors driving the wage disparities. The data set covers the Household Budget Statistics surveys 2009 and 2018. In order to prevent biased results, the empirical strategy contains a two-stage model estimation and selectivity corrected decomposition approach. The findings claim a widening gender wage gap over the 10 years period. The portion of the gender wage gap resulting from the labor market discrimination tends to increase whereas the wage gap based on gender differences in characteristics decreases. Despite the decrease, if the female employees had the same characteristics as males, their mean wages would be higher. Moreover, the gender wage gap attributable to gender discrimination in the labor market continues to increase.

Keywords: Mincer wage equation; gender wage gap; sample selection model; labor force participation; selectivity corrected decomposition; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C34 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.53753/jame.1.1.01

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