@article{article_280227, title={THE GENDER WAGE GAP IN TURKEY}, journal={Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi}, volume={38}, pages={1–19}, year={2016}, DOI={10.14780/muiibd.280227}, url={https://izlik.org/JA28UZ98SZ}, author={Aktaş, Arda and Uysal, Gokce}, keywords={Gender wage gap,Quantile Regression,Machado-Mata Decomposition}, abstract={<p>The most prominent form of gender discrimination in the labor market is the gender gap in wages. </p> <p>Using the Wage Structure Survey, a firm-level data set, we study the gender wage gap in Turkey. We </p> <p>concentrate on formal employment as this is the jurisdiction of the Labor Code in Turkey. Although </p> <p>women earn 3% less than men on average, a wider look reveals important differences along the entire </p> <p>wage distribution. There is virtually no gender gap at the lower end of the wage distribution. More </p> <p>surprisingly, women seem to earn about 5 percent more than men at the top. Using quantile regressions </p> <p>which allow the study of the gender gap along the entire wage distribution, we find that women actually </p> <p>earn 8 percent less at the median. Moreover, at the high end of the wage distribution women earn 4.5 </p> <p>percent less than men once we control for differences in basic labor market characteristics such as </p> <p>education and labor market experience. The decomposition results reveal the unexplained part of the </p> <p>gender wage gap is actually larger than that observed in raw data. </p>}, number={2}