Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from Austria

How Does Collective Bargaining Affect the Gender Pay Gap?

Elvira, Saporta / COLLECTIVE BARGAINING The authors study the effect of unionization on gender wage differentials for production workers in nine U.S. manufacturing industries. They find that the wage gap is significantly smaller in unionized establishments for six of the industries, even after controlling for occupation and establishment gender composition. But this union effect does not hold w...

Does an Advanced Degree Reduce the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence from MBAs

This article uses a longitudinal survey of registrants for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) to compare the gender wage gap among MBA recipients with the gap among nonrecipients. We find evidence that the gender wage gap is lower among GMAT takers who obtained the MBA than among those who did not. This suggests that women with advanced degrees may face less discrimination in labor m...

The Gender Pay Gap

Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in New Zealand

Does ‘Performance Pay’ Pay? Wage Flexibility over the Great Recession

Using the National Compensation Survey between 2004-2014, we document substantial cyclical heterogeneity among performance pay and fixed wage jobs. We find that employment growth in performance pay (fixed wage) jobs is countercyclical (procyclical), whereas compensation per employee growth is procyclical (countercyclical). Our estimates are identified off the response of similar work levels wit...