Gender wage transparency and the gender pay gap: A survey
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Gender wage transparency and the gender pay gap : A survey. / Bennedsen, Morten; Larsen, Birthe; Wei, Jiayi.
I: Journal of Economic Surveys, Bind 37, Nr. 5, 2023, s. 1743-1777.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Gender wage transparency and the gender pay gap
T2 - A survey
AU - Bennedsen, Morten
AU - Larsen, Birthe
AU - Wei, Jiayi
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Journal of Economic Surveys published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - gender pay gap
KW - policy reforms
KW - wage transparency
U2 - 10.1111/joes.12545
DO - 10.1111/joes.12545
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85147383605
VL - 37
SP - 1743
EP - 1777
JO - Journal of Economic Surveys
JF - Journal of Economic Surveys
SN - 0950-0804
IS - 5
ER -
ID: 371569287