Gender-based wage differences, household bargaining and working women's welfare : theory and evidence from Izmir, Turkey

Abstract EN

This paper looks at household welfare distribution among two-income couples from three social strata in Izmir, Turkey.

A simple explicit two-stage dynamic game theory model is developed to determine if an egalitarian intra-household distribution under certain circumstances is consistent even though women earn lower wages than men.

The data was derived from a questionnaire developed to determine the viewpoints of each spouse regarding the personal expenditures of the other.

The model, although a no cooperative household bargaining model, also has aspects of cooperative models and proved to be flexible enough to be applicable for different socio-economic strata