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S8 Ep42: Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap
Season 8 · Episode 42

S8 Ep42: Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap

VoxTalks Economics

August 8, 202518m 59s

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Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. 

The gender wage gap in advanced economies isn’t shrinking. What can firms do to eliminate the part of the wage gap that comes from discrimination? The OECD has analysed the data from countries with pay transparency legislation to discover how much of the gender pay gap arises from the different treatment of equally qualified men and women. Stéphane Carcillo tells Tim Phillips what the research had discovered, and what the policy options could be.

Read the research: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/the-role-of-bargaining-and-discrimination-in-the-gender-wage-gap-in-france_1fd68687-en.html