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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

FamiliesLabor
TOPICS: Health, Paid Leave

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What’s the matter with the federal disability insurance program?

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Reforms to “just-in-time” scheduling practices now before Congress

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The Declining Labor Force Participation Rate: Causes, Consequences, and the Path Forward

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TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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Are estimates of the long-term U.S. unemployment rate too high?

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What will happen if the U.S. overtime threshold is raised?

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Looking Beyond the Latest U.S. Jobs Data

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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The benefits of more information when applying to college

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TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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Bolstering the bottom by indexing the minimum wage to the median wage

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TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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What happens when firms can choose wages?

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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Why has the U.S. labor force participation rate declined?

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Understanding changes in movement on the U.S. job ladder

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TOPICS: Job Mobility
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Waiting for healthy U.S. wage growth

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TOPICS: Wage Stagnation

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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