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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 union contracts are protecting U.S. workers from automated management and surveillance in the workplace

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Lessons from past trade adjustment policies to support displaced workers in the era of artificial intelligence

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Expanding eligibility for Unemployment Insurance helps low-income U.S. workers find better jobs

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

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Is weak U.S. wage growth all because of who’s getting jobs?

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Why is U.S. labor market fluidity drying up?

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Energy transitions in the United States

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David Card and Alan Krueger on the 20th anniversary of ‘Myth and Measurement’ (Invite Only)

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How concerned should we be about business investment and productivity growth?

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Why less job searching can be a good thing

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Give working women their due for caregiving in economic policy debates

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The consequences of higher labor standards in full service restaurants: A comparative case study of San Francisco and the Research Triangle in North Carolina

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Inside monopsony: Employer responses to higher labor standards in the full service restaurant industry

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Pooling multiple case studies using synthetic controls: An application to minimum wage policies

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Why we need better re-employment policies for formerly incarcerated African American men

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History shows why New Hampshire has room for higher minimum wages

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Joanna Venator

Boston College

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John Schmitt

Economic Policy Institute

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Johannes Schmieder

Boston University

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Sydnee Caldwell

University of California, Berkeley

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Kanika Arora

University of Iowa

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