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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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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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New paid leave research demonstrates challenge of balancing work and caregiving

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JOLTS Day Graphs: September 2019 Report Edition

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

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Testimony by Kate Bahn before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee

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Schooled by strikes: How strikes shape workers’ views about the U.S. labor movement

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Do Teacher Strikes Make Parents Pro- or Anti-Labor? The Effects of Labor Unrest on Mass Attitudes

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Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: The Association between Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements

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Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers

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Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the U.S. Service Sector

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What Explains Race/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?

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Parental Exposure to Routine Work Schedule Uncertainty and Child Behavior

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How U.S. workers’ just-in-time schedules perpetuate racial and ethnic inequality

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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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