We examine the effect of pay transparency on gender pay gap and firm outcomes. This paper exploits a 2006 legislation change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender disaggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee-employer administrative data and a difference-in-differences and...

In a panel of more than 6,900 firms in 28 countries over 10 years we provide evidence that family control and labor market regulation are substitute governance mechanisms. First, family firms have performance advantages over non-family firms in countries with less regulated labor markets. This...

We examine the effect of pay transparency on gender pay gap and firm outcomes. This paper exploits a 2006 legislation change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender dis-aggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee-employer administrative data and a difference-in-differences...