TY - JOUR
AU - Lim, Claire
AB - Claire Lim discussion of: Pay transparency Claire Lim Queen Mary, University of London, UK This is an exciting and thought-provoking paper. The authors conducted a set of care- fully and cleverly designed experiments aimed at addressing prominent policy issues. While the authors address important issues, there are also the following remaining questions that the literature will need to address in future research. First, the authors designed the experiment in a way that makes the measurement of productivity easy and transparent. In the real world, there is a great deal of variation in the difficulties of productivity measurement across industries. While it is relatively easy to measure the productivity of low-skilled workers in the manufacturing industries, it is extremely difficult to measure productivity in knowledge-oriented industries where an important part of the performance is about creativity. Also, the importance of team- work, which hinders the measurement of each individual’s productivity, varies greatly across industries. This issue raises questions on the scope of applicability of the present study. An im- portant obstacle to gender equality in pay is the difficulties in the measurement of pro- ductivity. For a woman to pursue a legal case on gender discrimination in pay, she needs 
TI - Claire Lim discussion of: Pay transparency
JO - Economic Policy
DO - 10.1093/epolic/eiad011
DA - 2023-03-28
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/claire-lim-discussion-of-pay-transparency-e5I3LGYN0D
SP - 193
EP - 194
VL - 38
IS - 113
DP - DeepDyve
ER -