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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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TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave

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Business dynamics on American Indian Reservations: Understanding the role of the gaming industry and secondary employment growth

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Do social norms around pay influence the wage-setting behavior of firms?

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TOPICS: Pay Equity
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Workers in the board room: The causal effects of shared governance

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Getting labor markets right: Occupational mobility and outside options

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Disentangling gender gaps: New evidence from personnel records

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TOPICS: Pay Equity
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Do higher wages improve health outcomes? Evidence from nursing homes and minimum wage reforms

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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Research finds the domestic outsourcing of jobs leads to declining U.S. job quality and lower wages

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New research shows California Paid Family Leave reduces poverty

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TOPICS: Paid Leave, Poverty
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Extensive nonstandard work hours among U.S. low-income mothers hinder their kids’ enrollment in center-based childcare

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JOLTS Day Graphs: June 2019 Report Edition

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

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How U.S. companies harm workers by making them independent contractors

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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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