Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence From Austria

Andreas Gulyas, Sebastian Seitz and Sourav Sinha

CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series from University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany

Abstract: We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy narrowed the gender wage gap by more than 0.5 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within firms. The Austrian transparency reform might have little 'bite' because wage reports are company secret and not public information.

Keywords: Pay Transparency; Gender Pay Gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J31 J38 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47
Date: 2021-03
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Journal Article: Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria (2023)
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