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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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How artificial intelligence uncouples hard work from fair wages through ‘surveillance pay’ practices—and how to fix it

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Adoption of generative AI will have different effects across jobs in the U.S. logistics workforce

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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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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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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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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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U.S. economic policies that are pro-work and pro-worker

Inequality & MobilityLabor
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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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Who profits from patents? Rent-sharing at innovative firms

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TOPICS: Pay Equity
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New research shows the franchise business model harms workers and franchisees, with the problem rooted in current antitrust law

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Control without responsibility: The legal creation of franchising 1960-1980

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Siwei Cheng

New York University

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Jenn Round

Rutgers University

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Emi Nakamura

University of California, Berkeley

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Patrick Denice

Western University

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Joanna Venator

Boston College

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