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Heterogeneity in Labor Income Profiles: Evidence from Turkey

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  • Emrehan Aktug
  • Tolga Umut Kuzubas
  • Orhan Torul

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In this paper, we investigate labor income profiles in Turkey. In doing so, we study the role of educational attainment, gender and the public versus private sector employment on labor income profiles by using the Turkish Statistical Institute’s Household Labour Force Survey micro-data from 2004 to 2018. We first report that while the average labor income profile in Turkey exhibits a moderate hump-shape over age, there exists an immense degree of heterogeneity in labor income trajectories over education, gender and the sector of employment. Second, while the public sector employment is more advantageous for low-educated Turkish employees, university graduates in Turkey’s labor market face a risk versus return trade-off in their choice of the sector of employment: the private sector labor income profiles display a similar level of average income but a higher degree of cross-sectional variation compared to their public sector counterparts. Third, we report a significant gender pay gap, especially among low-educated workers, which aligns well with historically low female participation rates in Turkey. Our findings via distributional clustering analysis, ordinary least squares and pseudo-panel estimations all indicate that in attempts to infer economy-wide average labor income profiles, abstracting away from any of these listed factors could lead to misleading inferences.
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  • Emrehan Aktug & Tolga Umut Kuzubas & Orhan Torul, 2018. "Heterogeneity in Labor Income Profiles: Evidence from Turkey," Working Papers 2018/10, Bogazici University, Department of Economics.
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    1. Ozan Bakis & Sezgin Polat, 2023. "Wage inequality dynamics in Turkey," Empirica, Springer;Austrian Institute for Economic Research;Austrian Economic Association, vol. 50(3), pages 657-694, August.
    2. Mehmet Nazım Tamkoç & Orhan Torul, 2020. "Cross-Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists: Wage, Income and Consumption Inequality in Turkey," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 18(2), pages 239-259, June.
    3. Nizam Melikşah Demirtaş & Orhan Torul, 2024. "Intergenerational income mobility in Turkey," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 22(1), pages 185-209, March.
    4. Nizam MelikÅŸah Demirtas & Orhan Torul, 2021. "Intergenerational Income Mobility in Turkey Abstract:," Working Papers 2021/05, Bogazici University, Department of Economics.
    5. Eleftherios Giovanis & Oznur Ozdamar, 2023. "Instrumental variables in structural equation modelling: an application on the impact of labour factors on health and standard of livings," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 32(4), pages 1083-1121, October.

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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General

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