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Educational Attainment and Wage Inequality in Turkey
Author(s) -
Popli Gurleen,
Yılmaz Okan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12083
Subject(s) - wage inequality , inequality , educational attainment , workforce , economics , distribution (mathematics) , wage , labour economics , demographic economics , economic growth , mathematics , mathematical analysis
This paper analyses the relationship between wage distribution and educational attainment of the workforce. Wage inequality in Turkey decreased over 2002–10; a period over which it also saw an increase in the supply of educated workers. Our findings suggest that decreasing inequality in the bottom half of the distribution was largely due to decreasing returns to education and experience; whereas the moderate decline in inequality in the upper tail of the wage distribution is explained by a fall in returns to the ‘routine’ occupational tasks. The effect of changes in the composition of workers was found to be moderate.