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Nobel economics prize awarded to U.S. economist Claudia Goldin for work on women in the labor market
The Nobel economics prize was on Monday awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University for her research on women in the labor market. Goldin provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market outcomes through the centuries, the Nobel committee said during the prize announcement. Her research reveals new patterns, identifies causes of change but also speaks to the main sources of the remaining gender gaps, the committee added. The winners of the award, which is officially titled the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, receive 10 million ... (full story)