TY - JOUR T1 - Gender Wage Gaps by Knowledge Intensity in Turkish Service Sector TT - Türkiye’de Hizmet Sektöründe Bilgi Yoğunluğuna Göre Cinsiyete Dayalı Ücret Farklılıkları AU - Sefil Tansever, Sinem PY - 2022 DA - April DO - 10.17153/oguiibf.985091 JF - Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi PB - Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1306-6730 SP - 272 EP - 294 VL - 17 IS - 1 LA - en AB - This study aims to determine whether knowledge intensive services (KIS) reduce gender wage gaps and women’s labor attributes in the Turkish service sector by employing survey data from the Turkish Household Labor Force Survey of 2019. Both mean wage differences and wage differences across the wage distribution are examined by employing the Oaxaca–Blinder wage decomposition, along with the Heckman sample selection procedure, and the Melly decomposition approaches respectively. The results suggest that, in spite of the relatively higher mean wages of women in KIS employment, KIS offers worse employment outcomes for women in terms of intra-sector wage inequality, and relatively poorer working conditions than the Turkish service sector. KW - Blinder-Oaxaca KW - Melly KW - Quantile KW - Gender KW - KIS KW - Wage Gaps N2 - Bu çalışma, Türkiye’de bilgi yoğun hizmetlerin, hizmet sektöründe cinsiyete dayalı ücret farklılıklarını ve kadın işgücü niteliklerini iyileştirip iyileştirmediğini 2019 Türkiye Hanehalkı İşgücü Araştırması verilerini kullanarak belirlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Ortalama ücret farklılıkları ve ücret dağılımı boyunca ücret farklılıkları sırasıyla Heckman örneklem seçilim modeliyle birlikte Oaxaca-Blinder dekompozisyonu ve Melly dekompozisyonu yöntemleriyle incelenmiştir. 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DOI: 10.1080/095373299107429 UR - https://doi.org/10.17153/oguiibf.985091 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1934479 ER -