United Kingdom Mandatory Gender Pay Gap Reporting (Equality Act 2010 / 2017 Regulations)
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Since April 2017, all UK employers with ≥250 staff must publish annual gender pay gap data. Over 10,700 employers now …
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Denmark's 2006 Gender-Disaggregated Wage Statistics Law — Pay Transparency Cut the Gender Pay Gap by 2 Points
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Denmark's 2006 law obliging firms to report gender-disaggregated wage statistics narrowed the gender pay gap by about 2 percentage points (13%), mainly by slowing male wage growth, without affecting profitability.
Details
- Promoter
- Danish Parliament / Danish Ministry of Employment
- Period
- 2006-present
- Keywords
- labour market, pay transparency, equal pay, wage statistics
Description
In 2006 Denmark introduced legislation requiring firms to provide gender-disaggregated wage statistics.
A peer-reviewed study by Bennedsen, Simintzi, Tsoutsoura and Wolfenzon (Journal of Finance, 2022; NBER Working Paper 25435) used difference-in-differences and difference-in-discontinuities designs on Danish employer-employee administrative data.
The gender pay gap declined by about 2 percentage points, or 13% relative to the pre-legislation mean. The reduction came primarily from slower wage growth for male employees rather than faster growth for women.
The overall wage bill fell but firm profitability was unaffected, which the authors attribute to an offsetting decline in productivity. Policymakers should therefore treat this as a cautionary as well as a positive case.
Read the full analysis: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/publications/do-firms-respond-to-gender-pay-gap-transparency/
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Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-10-03
- Danish Parliament / Danish Ministry of Employment — accessed 2026-10-03
- NBER Working Paper 25435 — accessed 2026-10-03
- INSEAD publication page (Journal of Finance 2022) — accessed 2026-10-03
- University of Copenhagen research portal — accessed 2026-10-03
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