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Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap / Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Kory Kroft, Alexandre Mas, Derek Messacar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Michael.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25834.
- NBER working paper series no. w25834
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified 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 approximately 20-40 percent.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- May 2019.
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