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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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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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In conversation with Robert Solow

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Recessions, recoveries, and racial employment gaps in the United States

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Unions, managers and monopolies: how concentration and managerial power contribute to rising wage inequality

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JOLTS Day Graphs: May 2017 Report Edition

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“Them old guys… they knew what to do”: Examining the impact of industry collapse on two tribal reservations

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Languages, laws and labor contracts

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The optimal design of parental leave policies and gender equality: mismatch of skills across genders

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TOPICS: Gender, Paid Leave
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From liberty street to main street: firms, monetary policy and labor market outcomes

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TOPICS: Monetary Policy
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Effects of the new wave of minimum wage policies

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TOPICS: Minimum Wage
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Vertical dis-integration and the reallocation of risk and revenues in production networks: the case of franchising

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Unbundling worker and manager preferences for workplace organization: understanding support for new forms of labor representation

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Firm and market shocks, wage risk, and the protection provided by government institutions: evidence from IRS tax data

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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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