Equal Pay for Similar Work

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Passaro, Diego Gentile; Kojima, Fuhito; Pakzad-Hurson, Bobak
• 署名单位: University of Tokyo; Brown University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282; 1944-7981
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20230832
• 发表日期: 2026-03
• 页码: 977-1013
• 关键词: discrimination; equilibrium; POLICY; FIRMS; RACE; sex

摘要

Equal pay laws increasingly require that workers with different group identities doing similar work are paid equal wages within firm. We study such equal pay for similar work (EPSW) policies theoretically and test our models' predictions empirically using evidence from a 2009 gender-based Chilean EPSW. Under EPSW, firms segregate their workforce by gender. When there are more men than women in a labor market, EPSW increases the gender wage gap. (JEL J16, J31, J38, K31, O15)