Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244405 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 21-076
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
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 0.4 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.
Subjects: 
Gender Pay Gap
Pay Transparency
JEL: 
J08
J31
J38
J78
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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