Her work provides the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings through the centuries, the jury said.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics was on Monday awarded to economic historian Claudia Goldin for her work on the gender gap in the labour market.
The jury said that Goldin was being awarded the prize, officially called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, as her work provides the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries. “Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap,” the jury said.
