TY  - JOUR
TI  - FACTORS AFFECTING GENDER WAGE GAP: EMPRICAL EVIDENCES FROM SELECTED OECD COUNTRIES
AB  - Nowadays, poverty has become a multi-dimensional problem, including social factors, rather than just an economic problem. Especially recently, poverty has been addressed in terms of gender focused on women and men. Gender-oriented approach to the problem of poverty has been gradually increasing. In the gender-based poverty approach, inequalities between men and women are addressed and it is emphasized that women are poorer than men. According to this approach, poverty is increasingly feminized, and women are a part of poverty to a greater extent than men in terms of gender. The increasing impoverishment of women is also expressed as the feminization of poverty One of the most important reasons of women's impoverishment is the wage inequality between men and women. In this context, this study aims to analyze the effects of factors playing an important role in women's impoverishment on wage inequality are analyzed in the sample of selected OECD countries for the period of 1996-2016. According to the results, women's participation in the labor force, life expectancy at birth, higher level of education have a decreasing effect on gender wage gap. In addition, the increase in the employment rates of women in the industry sector also has a decreasing effect on wage inequality. On the other hand, the low education level of women and the increase in the female population over 65age increase the gender wage gap.
AU  - akdoğan gedik, melek
AU  - Günel, Tuğay
DO  - 10.25287/ohuiibf.823479
PY  - 2021
JO  - Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
SN  - 2564-6931
SP  - 1051
EP  - 1061
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/453295
ER  -