TY - RPRT AU - Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal AU - Pastore, Francesco TI - Gender Wage Gap - A Matching Analysis for Three MENA Countries: Egypt, Jordan and Turkey PY - 2020/Dec/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 13934 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp13934 AB - We investigate the gender wage gap in three neglected MENA countries: Egypt (1980-2018), Jordan (2010-2016), and Turkey (2014-21017). We use repeated cross-sections and propensity score matching as the best way to control for observed heterogeneity. We find a much more sizeable gap than in advanced economies, but with a downward trend similar to advanced economies, reaching in Jordan a low of -0.18. KW - gender wage gap KW - propensity score matching KW - Turkey KW - Jordan KW - Egypt ER -