Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

Tansel, Aysıt; Dalgıç, Başak; Güven, Aytekin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2519502

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“…One of the great gender issues affecting Turkey alongside many other countries globally is the lingering gap in wages earned for males and women in similar jobs (Tansel, Dalgic, Guven, 2014). This enormous gap is also visible in the sports sector and especially observed in these research results.…”

Section: Wage Disparitysupporting

confidence: 50%

Gender Inequality and Female Sports Participation in Turkey

Yenilmez

2021

Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine

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Research Questions: Discrimination remains a sore point for women in Turkish sports. This has subsequently hindered women from participating or building thriving careers in sports in Turkey. Many women are discouraged from taking part in professional sports due to the perceptions existing around such activities. Therefore, the Turkish female sports sector is growing at a very sluggish pace. The present study evaluates Turkish women's roles regarding connections between sports and politics to revolutionize the country. This assessment is vital to understand the barriers to Turkish women's sports participation and what can be done to encourage more women to invest in professional sports.Research Methods: The present study provides an in-depth view of the limiting factors hindering women from developing thriving professional Turkish sports careers. The research utilizes a semi-structured questionnaire to establish data from about 162 female participants (amateur and professional sportswomen) in different cities across the country. Results and Findings: The present study highlights that unequal salaries, unavailability of sports facilities for women, media misrepresentation, and pressures from the family, are some of the factors limiting the participation of females in Turkish sports. Inferences:The study provides insights on the vitality of sports programs and physical activities, everyone, including females. The study further emphasizes the need to create enabling environments that will foster female participation in Turkey's sports.

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Section: Wage Disparitysupporting

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Gender Inequality and Female Sports Participation in Turkey

Yenilmez

2021

Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine

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“…It is depressing to say that the gap in wages earned for similar jobs between males and females is still a massive issue across countries in the world, including Turkey (Tansel et al, 2014). This glaring gap extends as far as the earnings in female sports and was observed in the findings in this study.…”

Section: Wage Inequalitymentioning

confidence: 46%

Medya ve Kültürel İnançların Türkiye’de Kadınların Spora Katılımı Üzerindeki Etkisi: Profesyonel Sporda Türk Kadınlarının Karşılaştığı Zorluklar

Yenilmez

2021

Sosyoekonomi

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The fight for gender equality in Turkey extends as far as the sports sector of the economy. Although Turkey has recently seen a fast rise in the participation of women in sports, female athletes are still being marginalized for many reasons. The alarming levels of discrimination discourage females from entering into professional sports in Turkey and have inhibited the growth of the female sports sector in Turkey. This research aims to examine the different roles women have to take with emphasis on explaining the relationship between sports and politics in modern Turkey. The present study explores Turkish women's specific constraints and challenges in professional Sports. Qualitative data were generated from semi-structured interviews conducted with 142 female athletes (both amateur and professionals) across different cities in Turkey. The findings of the study indicate that family influence (χ= 4.39 of 5), wage inequality (χ = 4.31 of 5), media misrepresentation (χ = 4.16 of 5), inadequate sports facilities for women (χ = 4.12 of 5) and high levels of sexual harassment (χ = 3.89 of 5) are the constraints that must be addressed to improve the climate for female participation in sports significantly. The study highlights how these physical activities and sports programs play essential roles in increasing awareness of their importance and improving the overall perception of women in sports in Turkey.

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“…We use the Gini Index to measure inequality in the distribution of the monthly per capita consumption expenditure (as a proxy for income) data sets. The Gini coefficient is most sensitive to income differences about the middle, specifically; it measures the average difference between all possible pairs of wages in the population, expressed as a proportion of total earnings (see Cowell & Flachaire, 2018; Tansel, Dalgic, & Guven, 2019). The Gini coefficient varies between 0 and 1 and is defined as follows:

Gini = \frac{1}{2 n^{2} \overset{w}{true}} \sum_{i = 1}^{n} \sum_{j = 1}^{n} (||, w_{i} - w_{j})

where n is the number of individuals in the sample,

\overset{w}{true}

is the arithmetic mean of per capita consumer expenditure, w i is the income of individuals i , and w j is the income of individuals j .…”

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confidence: 99%

Poverty and inequality in Odisha, India

Panda

Padhi

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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Odisha has gone on from being the most underdeveloped Indian state to be the state that has recorded the highest decline in poverty among the states. We undertake decomposition analyses to assess the redistributive changes in poverty and inequality over the period 1993–1994 and 2011–2012 across regions and social groups, examining the NSSO Consumer Expenditure Survey data. We find that while Odisha has succeeded in substantially reducing both rural and urban poverty incidence, this change has not met desirable subgroup‐specific variations. Among regions, southern and northern Odisha have not kept pace with coastal Odisha in poverty reduction during the study period. The rate of poverty reduction for the Scheduled Tribes and the Scheduled Castes has been dismal. Overall, we found the growth effects on poverty reduction to be more prominent over inequality effects and population shift effects on poverty, although these effects varied in contexts. While inequality in urban regions rose, it declined in rural regions. While at the state‐level, the within‐group inequality has declined between 2004–2005 and 2011–2012 (coincident with the present Naveen Patnaik rule); the between‐group inequality has increased during the period. Rural Odisha has seen a reduction in both within‐group and between‐group disparities, whereas urban Odisha has fared the opposite.

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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey

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Gender Inequality and Female Sports Participation in Turkey

Gender Inequality and Female Sports Participation in Turkey

Medya ve Kültürel İnançların Türkiye’de Kadınların Spora Katılımı Üzerindeki Etkisi: Profesyonel Sporda Türk Kadınlarının Karşılaştığı Zorluklar

Poverty and inequality in Odisha, India

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