This paper investigates the relation between female activity in the labor market and gender wage gaps using regional data from Turkey. Labor force participation of women in Turkey significantly lags behind the developed countries but is increasing. At the same time, raw gender wage gap is quite low in international standards but also increasing. I use the regional variation to analyze the relation between female labor force participation and wage gaps in two steps. First, I estimate the unexplained wage gap, which filters out the gender differences in productivity characteristics for each region and each year between 2009 and 2018, using Household Labor Force Survey data. Then I analyze the relation between gender gap with female labor force participation and other regional characteristics in a panel data regression. The results of the paper suggest that female labor force participation is positively related with both raw and unexplained wage gap. This positive relation partially stems from the fact that women with less unobservable skills or career motivation enter into labor force in the process of increase in female employment rate.

本文使用来自土耳其的区域数据调查了劳动力市场中女性活动与性别工资差距之间的关系。妇女在土耳其的劳动力参与大大落后于发达国家，但正在增加。同时，国际标准中的原始性别工资差距很小，而且还在增加。我使用区域差异来分两步分析女性劳动力参与与工资差距之间的关系。首先，我估算了无法解释的工资差距，该差距使用家庭劳动力调查数据过滤掉了2009年至2018年之间每个地区和每年生产力特征的性别差异。然后，我在面板数据回归中分析了性别差距与女性劳动力参与以及其他区域特征之间的关系。本文的结果表明，女性劳动力的参与与原始和无法解释的工资差距均呈正相关。这种积极关系部分源于以下事实，即具有较低的技能或职业动机的妇女在女性就业率增加的过程中进入了劳动力队伍。