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Public_Private Employment Choice, Wage Differential and Gender in Turkey

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Tansel, A.

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There is no evidence on the extent of public versus private wage differentials in Turkey. The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private wage sector in Turkey.

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Paper provided by Yale - Economic Growth Center in its series Papers with number 797.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: WAGES ; PUBLIC SECTOR ; PRIVATE SECTOR ; GENDER;

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J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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