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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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Labor Non-Compete Agreements: Tool for Economic Efficiency, or Means to Extract Value from Workers?

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Employer concentration suppresses wages for several million U.S. workers: antitrust and labor market regulators should respond

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Employer Concentration and Outside Options

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Boosting Wages

New Equitable Growth book presents broad structural changes to boost U.S. wages for more equitable and sustainable economic growth

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Boosting Wages

Foreword: Boosting Wages for U.S. Workers in the New Economy

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Boosting Wages

Broad structural change is needed to boost wages in a U.S. economy that is more equitable to produce strong, sustainable economic growth

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Strategic enforcement and co-enforcement of U.S. labor standards are needed to protect workers through the coronavirus recession

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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Transforming U.S. supply chains to create good jobs

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Boosting Wages

Boosting wages when U.S. labor markets are not competitive

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Collective bargaining as a path to more equitable wage growth in the United States

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Boosting Wages

U.S. labor markets require a new approach to higher education

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Public investments in social insurance, education, and child care can overcome market failures to promote family and economic well-being

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Experts on the issue

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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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