Pay Transparency among Surgeons in the Veterans Health Administration: Closing the Gender Gap

Maxwell, Jessica H.; Randall, James A; Dermody, Sarah M.; Hussaini, Adnan S.; Rao, Hamsini; Nathan, Ajay S.; Malekzadeh, Sonya; Litvack, Jamie R.

doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.08.827

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“…Maxwell et al. (2019) study pay transparency among surgeons in the US Veteran Health Administration using a multivariate regression model taking salary as the dependent variable. The validity of this approach hinges on the researchers’ ability to control for relevant cofounding variables in the regression analysis.…”

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“…Using Ser-viCo's longitudinal personnel records he tests to what extent gender, race and foreign nationality had an impact on meritbased pay growth before and after the introduction of wage transparency, Not all papers rely on exogenous variation in pay transparency. Maxwell et al (2019) study pay transparency among surgeons in the US Veteran Health Administration using a multivariate regression model taking salary as the dependent variable. The validity of this approach hinges on the researchers' ability to control for relevant cofounding variables in the regression analysis.…”

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“…The authors collect 20 years of yearly employment and salary data for 97,838 individuals from 139 universities in eight states. For the specific context of US veterans, Maxwell et al (2019) study whether GPG disparities exist among surgical specialties in the Veterans Health Administration nationwide. Salaries were collated using the Enterprise Human Resources Integration-Statistical Data Mart dataset.…”

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“…Finally, additional evidence is found in more qualitative analysis. In the special setting of veterans in the US, Maxwell et al (2019) conclude that pay transparency in the Veteran Health Administration, along with an effort to use rational and objective criteria to establish and adjust salaries, can reduce and potentially eliminate gender pay disparity. Conley and Torbus (2018) discuss pay transparency laws in three countries, namely the UK, Poland, and Italy.…”

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“…vvThese six papers are Ahrens and Scheele (2022); Burn and Kettler (2019); Canales (2018); Conley and Torbus (2018); Maxwell et al. (2019); Obloj Zenger (2022). …”

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Gender wage transparency and the gender pay gap: A survey

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2023

Journal of Economic Surveys

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We survey the literature on the effects of increased transparency of gender segregated wages on the pay gap between men and women in comparable jobs. Pay transparency is promoted by countries and supra‐national institutions and we categorize reforms according to their content and coverage. A growing number of papers have used variations of difference‐in‐difference estimation methods to analyze the impact of reforms on the gender pay gap (GPG), and from these we extract four main findings: First, reform‐based studies find that pay transparency reforms reduce the GPG in all countries but one, which finds no effect. Second, in Canada, Denmark and the UK, the reduction in the GPG from transparency reforms originate from a reduction in the growth rate of male income and less from an increase in women's pay. Third, there is fragmented evidence for the impact of transparency reforms on other labor outcomes and firm productivity. Fourth, the monetary implementation cost of transparency reforms is, in general, small both for individual firms and public administration. These finding are consistent with the notion that gender wage transparency reforms are an effective policy tool to reduce the GPG.

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“…vvThese six papers are Ahrens and Scheele (2022); Burn and Kettler (2019); Canales (2018); Conley and Torbus (2018); Maxwell et al. (2019); Obloj Zenger (2022). …”

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