Gender Pay Gap Might Never Disappear in US and UK, Study Shows

The gender pay gap is set to persist in the foreseeable future, contradicting trend-based forecasts that predict that incomes between men and women are converging, a recent study shows.

The narrowing of the pay gap between the mid-1970s and the early 2000s in most high-income economies was driven by lower earnings differentials between male and female labor market entrants, according to findings published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Focusing on the US, Italy, Canada and the UK, the four economists — Jaime Arellano-Bover, Nicola Bianchi, Matteo Paradisi and Salvatore Lattanzio — found that confluence halted ...