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

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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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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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation
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What explains the rise in income inequality at the top of the income distribution?

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How the student debt crisis affects African Americans and Latinos

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Why it’d be nice if the “job-hopping” Millennial story were true

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
In Conversation

Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Lawrence H. Summers

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Giving credit to the unemployed

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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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