2023-10-09 11:58:55
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on Monday October 9 to Claudia Goldin of the American Harvard University. She is rewarded for “having advanced our understanding of the situation of women in the labor market”explains the Nobel committee.
The researcher’s work has “provided a better understanding of the factors that affect women’s opportunities in the labor market and the demand for their work”greets the jury.
Specialist in economic history, the 77-year-old researcher “highlighted the main factors of difference between men and women” and the way in which they have evolved over the last two centuries as industrialization progressed, with the observation of a decline in women’s work during the 19th century.
Only the third “Nobel-winning” economist
The Nobel Prize in Economics stands out as a parity dunce among the famous awards. Before Claudia Goldin, only two women had won it, the American Elinor Ostrom (2009) and the Franco-American Esther Duflo (2019).
“Goldin’s studies also taught us that change takes time, because choices that affect entire careers are based on expectations that may later prove false (…). His research gives us a better understanding of the labor markets of yesterday, today and tomorrow”notes the Nobel committee.
Globally, around 50% of women participate in the workforce, compared to 80% of men, and women earn less and “are less likely to reach the top of the professional ladder”colliding with the « distant ceiling »noted Randi Hjalmarsson, member of the Nobel committee.
Esther Duflo, last French woman to be rewarded
In 2022, the prize was awarded to Ben Bernanke, former president of the American central bank (Fed), and to his compatriots Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for their work on banks and the need for their rescue during financial storms.
Officially named the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, the prize is the last in the series to be awarded each year, following the awards given for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and science. peace.
The last French recipient was the economist Esther Duflo, rewarded in 2019 with her American colleagues Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for their work on reducing poverty in the world.
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