IDK in your country, in mine the downside was that we all knew such pay gap is mostly non-existant, so they mandated a pay gap law but data is locked under trade unions gatekeeping.
In my country most salaries are mandated with trade-union agreements, even variable compensations. Only very specific and niche cases behave outside that framework.
If any trade union or person believed that there was a real pay gap in any company, they could sue and win if true. Even way before current law.
With the new law, it's even easier, as they get access to all the microdata basically.
By this logic, racial and gender pay gaps should never have existed. Why didn't any visionary CEO in America hire blacks instead of whites in 1950 and save 50% on labor?
I presume you are from Spain, which indeed is one of the top countries in the Global Gender Gap Index [1] but its unadjusted gender pay gap still sits at 11.9% (2019 provisional) [2]. Yes it's called "unadjusted" for a reason (gender pay gap is a broad phenomenon and can't be described with a single statistics and that's why we have the Index) but it is far from "non-existant".
Trade Unions have access to companies microdata now. If there such pay gap, there's no excuse now.
I don't really want to get into a large discussion, but I know the data sources of these studies as I used them pretty often, and you'll have to be pretty creative, either with data or with definitions.
This issue for me is very linked with my distrust of academia, is not just this issue.
I went to uni (sociology) in my mid 20s and I wasn't impressed with the ethical standards of the field, let's say that.
neither_color|4 years ago
spaniard89277|4 years ago
If any trade union or person believed that there was a real pay gap in any company, they could sue and win if true. Even way before current law.
With the new law, it's even easier, as they get access to all the microdata basically.
But nothing lands on courts yet.
throwaway2048|4 years ago
cool_dude85|4 years ago
lifthrasiir|4 years ago
[1] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2021.pdf (14th place in 2021)
[2] https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=sdg...
spaniard89277|4 years ago
I don't really want to get into a large discussion, but I know the data sources of these studies as I used them pretty often, and you'll have to be pretty creative, either with data or with definitions.
This issue for me is very linked with my distrust of academia, is not just this issue.
I went to uni (sociology) in my mid 20s and I wasn't impressed with the ethical standards of the field, let's say that.