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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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JOLTS Day Graphs: December 2018 Report Edition

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New research shows links between the quality of U.S. retail workers’ schedules and their well-being

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Why a minimum wage increase would help low-income workers across the United States

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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Who’s afraid of sunlight? Explaining opposition to transparency in economic development

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: January 2019 Report Edition

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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Economic change and the social safety net: Are rural Americans still behind?

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JOLTS Day Graphs: November 2018 Report Edition

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: December 2018 Report Edition

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U.S. economic policies that are pro-work and pro-worker

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Rethinking collective action and U.S. labor laws in a monopsonistic economy

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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How does market power affect wages? Monopsony and collective action in an institutional context

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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Who profits from patents within firms and among firms? Hint: Not women and not most employees

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TOPICS: Pay Equity

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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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