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

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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)

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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.

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  • Elisabeth Cudeville & Leman Yonca Gurbuzer, 2010. "Gender Wage Discrimination in the Turkish Labor Market: Can Turkey Be Part of Europe?," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Association for Comparative Economic Studies, vol. 52(3), pages 429-463, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:compes:v:52:y:2010:i:3:p:429-463
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    1. Ebenezer Lemven Wirba & Fiennasah Annif’ Akem & Francis Menjo Baye, 2021. "Earnings gap between men and women in the informal labor market in Cameroon," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 25(3), pages 1466-1491, August.
    2. Arda Aktas & Gokce Uysal, 2011. "Explaining the Gender Wage Gap in Turkey Using the Wage Structure Survey," Working Papers 005, Bahcesehir University, Betam, revised Mar 2012.
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    4. Altan Aldan, 2021. "Rising Female Labor Force Participation and Gender Wage Gap: Evidence From Turkey," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 155(3), pages 865-884, June.
    5. Duman, Anil, 2020. "Non-Standard Employment and Wage Differences across Gender: a quantile regression approach," GLO Discussion Paper Series 664, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

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