issue Labor

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.

Photo credit: Bannafarsai_Stock/shutterstock.com

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

post

Strong unions push firms to reduce riskier debt, lowering risks of unemployment for U.S. workers

LaborInequality & Mobility
report

Industrial policies will be more effective at supporting good jobs and a stronger U.S. economy where there is institutional support for worker power

LaborInequality & Mobility
Executive action to spur equitable growth

Executive actions to strengthen unions and increase worker power in the United States

Labor
In Conversation

In Conversation with Lenore Palladino

LaborTax & Macroeconomics
post

A primer on monopsony power: Its causes, consequences, and implications for U.S. workers and economic growth

Labor
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Monopsony
post

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

Explore Content in Labor1727

Reset
working paper

Resilience in Collective Bargaining

Labor
grant

Wage and Skills’ Spillover Effects of Million Dollar Projects

Inequality & MobilityLabor
grant

Employee Activism: Mobilizing Workers as Corporate Stakeholders

Labor
grant

The Role of Regulations in the Development of Labor Market Power: Evidence from Clean Air Act’s New Source Review Permit Program

CompetitionLabor
grant

Novel Measurement of Childcare Customer and Worker Flows Enables Novel Evidence on Recent Supply-Side Subsidies

FamiliesLabor
grant

The Child Care Workforce and COVID: Community Capacity and Investments as Buffers to the Pandemic

FamiliesLabor
grant

Janus and the Future of Public Sector Worker Power

Labor
grant

Microeconomic and Macroeconomic Implications of Wage Rigidity

Tax & MacroeconomicsLabor
grant

Building an open-source knowledge base and machine learning tools to automate the transformation of job advertisement text into data

Labor
TOPICS: 1
TOPICS: Job Mobility
grant

Changing Climate for Union Organizing: Non-Board campaigns 2016-2022

Labor
post

New research shows that differences in state Unemployment Insurance rules cause inequity and inefficiency

FamiliesInequality & MobilityLabor
working paper

Racial Inequality in the U.S. Unemployment Insurance System

FamiliesInequality & MobilityLabor

Experts on the issue

Grantee

Samir Sonti

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies

Learn More
Grantee

David S. Pedulla

Harvard University

Learn More
Grantee

Martha Bailey

University of California, Los Angeles

Learn More
Guest Author

Jeffrey Thompson

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Learn More
Former Steering Committee

Janet L. Yellen

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Learn More
Connect with us!

Explore the Equitable Growth network of experts around the country and get answers to today's most pressing questions!

Get in Touch