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Equal Pay for Similar Work

Diego Gentile Passaro et al.

The American Economic Review2026https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20230832article
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Abstract

Equal pay laws increasingly require that workers with different group identities doing “similar” work are paid equal wages within firm. We study such “equal pay for similar work” (EPSW) policies theoretically and test our models’ predictions empirically using evidence from a 2009 gender-based Chilean EPSW. Under EPSW, firms segregate their workforce by gender. When there are more men than women in a labor market, EPSW increases the gender wage gap. (JEL J16, J31, J38, K31, O15)

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@article{diego2026,
  title        = {{Equal Pay for Similar Work}},
  author       = {Diego Gentile Passaro et al.},
  journal      = {The American Economic Review},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20230832},
}

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