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Phillip Inman

Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender pay gap

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after winning the Nobel economics prize.
The Harvard professor Claudia Goldin at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after winning the Nobel economics prize. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

The Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel economics prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work examining wage inequality between men and women.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday that Goldin’s research “provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries” to reveal “the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap”.

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