The migration of nurses is further exacerbated by a significant wage disparity within Europe.

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It claims wage disparity between the UK's top earners and the rest of the working population will soon return to Victorian levels.

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Now keep in mind, this was 34 years after the Equal Pay Act was signed by President Kennedy in 1963, a law designed to abolish wage disparity based on gender.

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The issues of executive pay and growing income disparity were rising on the political agenda, as did the issue of raising the minimum wage.

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