Women's Tertiary Education Masks the Gender Wage Gap in Turkey

dc.contributor.authorTekgüç, Hasan
dc.contributor.authorEryar, Deger
dc.contributor.authorCindoglu, Dilek
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-27T08:01:16Z
dc.date.available2019-06-27T08:01:16Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.departmentFakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Ekonomi Bölümüen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper investigates the gender wage gap for full-time formal sector employees disaggregated by education level. The gap between the labor force participation rate of women with tertiary education and those with lower levels of education is substantial. There is no such gap for men. Hence existing gender wage gap studies for Turkey where we observe lopsided labor force participation rates by education levels compare two very different populations. We disaggregate the whole sample by education level to create more homogenous sub-groups. For Turkey without disaggregation the gender wage gap was 13% in 2011 and women are significantly over-qualified relative to men on observed characteristics. Once we disaggregate the sample by education level we show that the gender wage gap is 24% for less educated women and 9% for women with tertiary education in full-time formal employment. Observed characteristics only explain 1 % of this gap in absolute terms. We further disaggregate the data by public and private employment. The gender gap is higher in the private sector. However women with tertiary education in the public sector are significantly better qualified compared to men and consequently the adjusted gender wage gap is higher for women with tertiary education in the public sector. Our estimates also indicate a rise in the gender wage gap between 2004 and 2011.en_US]
dc.identifier.citation14
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12122-017-9243-xen_US
dc.identifier.endpage386
dc.identifier.issn0195-3613en_US
dc.identifier.issn1936-4768en_US
dc.identifier.issn0195-3613
dc.identifier.issn1936-4768
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85014768170en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage360en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/324
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-017-9243-x
dc.identifier.volume38en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000407393800005en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.institutionauthorTekgüç, Hasanen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.journalJournal of Labor Researchen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectGender wage gapen_US
dc.subjectLabor force participationen_US
dc.subjectTertiary educationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleWomen's Tertiary Education Masks the Gender Wage Gap in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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