Code for: Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Austria
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Andreas Gulyas, University of Mannheim (Germany); Sebastian Seitz, University of Mannheim (Germany); Sourav Sinha, Yale University
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Project Citation:
Gulyas, Andreas, Seitz, Sebastian, and Sinha, Sourav. Code for: Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Austria. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-04-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E167024V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This is the replication material for Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Austria, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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.
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.
Funding Sources:
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) (CRC TR 224)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Wages;
Gender pay gap
JEL Classification:
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J08 Labor Economics Policies
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J38 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
J08 Labor Economics Policies
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J38 Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
J78 Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
Geographic Coverage:
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Austria
Time Period(s):
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2007 – 2018
Universe:
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Austrian workers employed in a job subject to social security
Data Type(s):
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Methodology
Data Source:
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AMDB, Arbeitsmarktdatenbank, AMS
Unit(s) of Observation:
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individual
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