He who shared this year's Nobel prize in economics with Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, tells us why people with similar jobs get paid differently
Dale T. Mortensen
Age: 71
Designation: Professor of Economics, Northwestern University (US); Visiting Professor of Economics, Aarhus University (Denmark)
Education: B.A. in Economics, Willamette University; Ph.D. in Economics, Carnegie-Mellon University
Awards: Nobel Prize in Economics, 2010; Institute for the Study of Labor Prize, 2005; Society of Labor Economics Mincer Prize, 2007
(This story appears in the 19 November, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)