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FEMINIST ECONOMICS
Volume -, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2023.2249000
Keywords
Gender pay gap; bargaining; temporary contract; informal employment; wage; Turkey; J16; J21; J31
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This article examines the relationship between employment types and wages, as well as gender pay gaps, in Turkey. It finds that temporary and informal employment has a significant impact on women's earnings, particularly for low-wage women. This suggests that employment type is an important factor contributing to the gender pay gap in Turkey.
This article examines the relationship between types of employment and wages by gender and gender pay gaps among permanent, temporary, and informal workers. There are substantial gender inequalities in bargaining, and these inequalities are argued to be more prevalent for temporary and informal jobs. Hence, larger wage penalties for women in such positions are expected. Moreover, the inverse association between wages and non-permanent contracts is larger for low-paid women. To this end, the study employs unconditional quantile regression techniques and counterfactual decomposition analysis, and accounts for selection bias. The dataset is based on labor force surveys over the period 2005-19 in Turkey and focuses on private sector employees. The findings highlight the disproportionate impact of temporary and informal employment on women's earnings and suggest that employment type can be a contributing factor to the gender pay gap in Turkey, particularly for low wage groups.HIGHLIGHTSIn Turkey, employment opportunities, social norms, and gender roles limit women's bargaining power.Gender inequalities in bargaining can vary significantly across employment types.Women employees with temporary or informal jobs suffer from larger pay penalties.Residual gender pay gaps are larger for low-paid temporary and informal workers.
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