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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.

Featured Research

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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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Big data and the labor market: A text-based analysis of job vacancies and skill requirements

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What can 5 million households tell us about the impact of credit access on job finding and wage inequality?

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Inequality, aggregate demand, and secular stagnation

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The impact of inequality on young workers’ career progression

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The consequences of tougher sentencing and the prison boom: Recidivism, human capital accumulation, and intergenerational effects

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Harvest of struggle: Tracking inequality through first contract gains for low-wage workers

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Substitution and the skill premium

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Schedule stability for hourly workers

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Inside monopsony: A mixed methods approach to understanding how labor standards shape employment practices in the restaurant industry

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Schedule stability for hourly workers – Phase I of II

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Women have made the difference for family economic security

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African American workers are hurt more by the decline in union and manufacturing jobs

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Experts on the issue

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Luke Elliott-Negri

Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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Hana Shepherd

Rutgers University

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Emi Nakamura

University of California, Berkeley

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Jennifer Laird

City University of New York (CUNY)

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Glen Kwende

American University

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