Comment by velcrovan

It is undeniable that a tech worker in Norway negotiates for a wage with better information than the same worker in a country without income transparency.

To claim that the effects of this transparency should be measured by a simple comparison of raw average salaries between the two countries is to use a metric that includes all of the confounding variables I mentioned and more. I am simply explaining why it is a poor metric, and explaining that the value of state-mandated transparency is in personal autonomy, not in “will it magically elevate my individual salary potential in one country above what it would be in all other countries”.