We examine whether salary transparency influences gender pay inequality in the context of Canadian universities by … database, thus lowering the cost of monitoring the gender pay gap. We find that, on average, salary disclosure improves gender … pay equality but institutions respond in different ways. Despite little media attention around gender equality at the time …

In this paper I study a policy in which employers are required to publicly report gender pay gap statistics. Proponents …’s recent reporting policy, in which employers are mandated to publicly report simple measures of their gender pay gap each year … of the gender pay gap at affected employers. This large-magnitude effect is primarily due to a decline in male wages …

during the hiring process. We find that the bans reduce gender pay gap by 4.2% points in hourly wages, and by 4.5% points in …. While the gender pay gap closes in the private sector, public sector gaps increase, primarily because of an increase in men …

A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper … the gender pay gap and the biases cited by proponents of bans: some firms consistently but unconsciously under … and wage gap persists. In contrast, bans may reduce the gender wage gap, but do so at the expense of high-performing women …

This paper investigates whether non-base compensation contributes to the gender pay gap. In wage decompositions, we … distribution. Our findings suggest that gender differences in bonuses are an important contributor to the gender pay gap …

How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate …

polarization resulted from increased automation, and provide a theoretical explanation. In our model, firms deciding whether to … fall. In addition to explaining job polarization, our model makes sense of observed patterns of automation and accounts for …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor … realize the tasks necessary for the production process. The two scenarios considered, with and without automation, confirm … that automation is indeed a key factor in polarizing the structure of skill demand and increasing wage inequality. This …