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Equitable Growth supports research and policy analysis on how inequalities in wages, bargaining power, and the evolving labor market affect workers’ economic security and opportunity as well as broad-based economic growth.

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Too many workers have been left behind as the benefits of growth increasingly accrue to those at the top of the income and wealth distribution. Equitable Growth supports research to improve our understanding of what is driving these trends, who is affected, and what policies can boost wages for all workers, provide for safe and equitable workplaces, develop pathways for upward mobility, and encourage stronger economic growth and stability.

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What is going on with wage growth in the United States?

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Strong unions push firms to reduce riskier debt, lowering risks of unemployment for U.S. workers

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Industrial policies will be more effective at supporting good jobs and a stronger U.S. economy where there is institutional support for worker power

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Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen unions and increase worker power in the United States

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A primer on monopsony power: Its causes, consequences, and implications for U.S. workers and economic growth

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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Paid sick time and paid family and medical leave support workers in different ways and are both good for the broader U.S. economy

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TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave

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Why employers might like paid leave programs

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TOPICS: Paid Leave
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The Federal Reserve and awareness of racial inequality

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Demographics don’t explain the decline in quitting

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Paid leave is good for our families and our economy

FamiliesLabor
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How minimum-wage increases affect the flow of firms

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Intellectual property and the decline of the U.S. labor share

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What are the factors behind high economic rents?

CompetitionInequality & MobilityLabor
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The upside of expanding access to the Earned Income Tax Credit

Tax & MacroeconomicsLabor
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Trying to get a grip on the gig economy

CompetitionLabor
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TOPICS: Monopsony
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JOLTS and the health of the U.S. labor market

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What’s aging got to do with the U.S. labor market recovery?

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Interactive: How much have U.S. earnings grown since 2007?

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Experts on the issue

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Anna Salomons

Utrecht University

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Tanya Byker

Middlebury College

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Kate Bronfenbrenner

Cornell University

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Sari Pekkala Kerr

Wellesley College

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Jesse Rothstein

University of California, Berkeley

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