Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence From Austria
Author-Name: Andreas Gulyas
Author-Email: andreas.gulyas@uni-mannheim.de
Author-Name: Sebastian Seitz
Author-Email: sseitz@mail.uni-mannheim.de
Author-Name: Sourav Sinha
Author-Email: sourav.sinha@yale.edu


Classification-JEL: J08, J31, J38, J78
Keywords: Pay Transparency, Gender Pay Gap

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.

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Length: 47
Creation-Date: 2021-03
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File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp194
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2021_194v2