The Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American Claudia Goldin

2023-10-09 10:06:00

Lhe Nobel Prize in Economics to the American Claudia Goldin. The economist is rewarded for her work on the place of women in the job market. The winner, 77 years old, the third woman to win the prize, has “advanced our understanding of the situation of women in the labor market”, announced the Nobel jury. “Claudia Goldin’s research has given us new and often surprising insight into the historical and contemporary role of women in the labor market,” said the jury.

“Claudia Goldin has delved into archives and collected more than two hundred years of data on the United States, allowing her to show how and why differences in income and employment rates between men and women have evolved over time,” explained Randi Hjalmarsson, member of the jury.

The Nobel in Economics is “a very important prize” but “there remain great inequalities” between the genders, the winner reacted Monday to Agence France-Presse. “It’s a very important prize, not only for me, but for many people who work on this theme and who try to understand why there remain great inequalities”, despite “important developments”, she said. declared, reached by telephone.

11 million Swedish crowns

Last year, the prize went to Ben Bernanke, former president of the American Central Bank (Fed), and his compatriots Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for their work on banks and their necessary rescues during financial storms.

Created by the Bank of Sweden, the economics prize “in memory of Alfred Nobel” was added in 1969 to the five traditional prizes (medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace) more than sixty years after the others, he earning his detractors the nickname “false Nobel”.

Like the other Nobels, the prize is endowed with 11 million Swedish crowns (920,000 euros), to be shared among co-winners, the highest nominal value (in Swedish currency) in the more than century-old history of the prize.

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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/FRAayC3Jwb

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