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Gender Wage Gap Among Couples and the Role of Parenthood Across the Wage Distribution in Turkey

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  • Ebru Caglayan-Akay

    (Marmara University)

  • Fulden Komuryakan

    (Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University)

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The gender wage gap and the penalty of parenthood on wages are still major economic and sociological problems, especially in developing economies. This study aims to fill the void in the literature by analyzing the gender wage gap among couples and the role of parenthood across the unconditional wage distribution in the Turkish labor force. In accordance, 1198 families which include working-married-couples with and without children from the Turkish Household Budget Statistics survey data for 2018 are examined via unconditional quantile regression and decomposition methods. The findings provide insights into three problems of the labor force gender wage gap among couples, the role of parenthood on wages, and the variation of them across the wage distribution. The findings reveal a gender wage gap among couples and the gap is wider for the lower-paid employees. Lower-paid females face a wider motherhood wage penalty whereas fatherhood is mostly insignificant on the males' wages. However, interestingly, fatherhood becomes a significant wage penalty for the highest-paid males.

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  • Ebru Caglayan-Akay & Fulden Komuryakan, 2024. "Gender Wage Gap Among Couples and the Role of Parenthood Across the Wage Distribution in Turkey," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 45(1), pages 21-34, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jfamec:v:45:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s10834-023-09901-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s10834-023-09901-3
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    Keywords

    Gender wage gap; Parenthood; Wage distribution; Unconditional quantile regression; Decomposition; Turkey;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models

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