Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap

Baker, Michael; Halberstam, Yosh; Kroft, Kory; Mas, Alexandre; Messacar, Derek

doi:10.1257/app.20210141

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“…Baker et al. (2022) derived very similar results for public employees in the Canadian university setting. Disclosing the wages of university faculty in Canada reduced the GPG between men and women by approximately 30%–50%.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Most of the current literature extracts variation in transparency from one of the policy reforms described above. To apply these reforms, it is a prerequisite that the policy reforms are exogenous to individual firms’ pre‐reform wage and labor policies (Baker et al., 2022; Bennedsen, Simintzi, et al., 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To study the reform on university faculty salaries in Canada, Baker et al. (2022) exploit the within‐province variation in exposure to the policy across institutions and academic departments. In addition, they extend this with a time dimension that exploits the staggered implementation of reforms across provinces.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Canadian University wage transparency reform is studied in Baker et al. (2022). The authors use administrative data covering the majority of university faculty in Canada.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For the educational sector, Obloj and Zenger (2022) use data that is similar to the Canadian data in Baker et al. (2022) but for US academics. The authors collect 20 years of yearly employment and salary data for 97,838 individuals from 139 universities in eight states.…”

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Gender wage transparency and the gender pay gap: A survey

Bennedsen

Larsen

Wei

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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Section: Research Based Evidence On the Impact Of Transparency On The...mentioning

confidence: 75%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Canadian University wage transparency reform is studied in Baker et al. (2022). The authors use administrative data covering the majority of university faculty in Canada.…”

Section: Research Based Evidence On the Impact Of Transparency On The...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Based Evidence On the Impact Of Transparency On The...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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