Pay Transparency and the Gender Gapt

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baker, Michael; Halberstam, Yosh; Kroft, Kory; Mas, Alexandre; Messacar, Derek
• 署名单位: University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research; Princeton University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Memorial University Newfoundland; Statistics Canada; Memorial University Newfoundland
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20210141
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 157-183
• 关键词: salaries

摘要

We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable pub-lic access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed spec-ified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces at different times. Using detailed administrative data covering the majority of faculty in Canada, and an event-study research design that exploits within-province variation in exposure to the policy across institutions and academic departments, we find robust evidence that the laws reduced the gender pay gap between men and women by approxi-mately 20-40 percent. (JEL I23, J16, J31, J44, K31)