Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? Evidence from Austria

Andreas Gulyas, Sebastian Seitz and Sourav Sinha

No 21-076, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

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 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within establishments. We discuss several possible reasons why the reform did not reduce the gender wage gap.

Keywords: Gender Pay Gap; Pay Transparency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J31 J38 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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