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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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Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes

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JOLTS Day Graphs: January 2017 Report Edition

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Seminar Series: Parenthood and the gender wage gap (Invitation only)

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: February 2017 Report Edition

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The connection between U.S. unemployment and rising opioid abuse

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TOPICS: Health
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Local economic decline affects marriage and fertility rates, but in a surprising way

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The U.S. minimum wage improves access to traditional lines of credit

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Why is collective bargaining so difficult in the United States compared to its international peers?

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Are shocks to U.S. firm performance transmitted to their workers?

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Can women’s “sagging middle” help explain the fall in U.S. labor force participation rates?

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TOPICS: Gender
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The wages of care: Bargaining power, earnings and inequality

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Care work as a team sport

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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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