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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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From Decent to Lousy Jobs: New Evidence on the Decline in American Job Quality, 1979-2017

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The once and future role of strikes in ensuring U.S. worker power

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What kind of labor organizations do U.S. workers want?

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How U.S. Workers Think About Workplace Democracy: The Structure of Individual Worker Preferences for Labor Representation

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Understanding the incidence of minimum wage increases

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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New evidence on local minimum wage laws and earnings inequality

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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Measuring firms’ labor market power in the United States

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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Labor market concentration and welfare

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TOPICS: Monopsony
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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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TOPICS: Monopsony
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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

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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