Kate Bahn
Kate Bahn

Research Director, WorkRise

The Urban Institute

Kate Bahn is the research director of WorkRise at The Urban Institute. Previously, she was the director of labor market policy and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her areas of research include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market, care work, and monopsonistic labor markets. Before Equitable Growth, Bahn was an economist at the Center for American Progress, and she served as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. Bahn received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College.

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Why workplace dignity is valuable to U.S. workers, employers, and the broader economy

LaborInequality & Mobility
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Ahead of the November jobs report, here’s what recent disaggregated data say about the state of the U.S. labor market and economic growth

LaborInequality & Mobility
In Conversation

In Conversation with Lenore Palladino

LaborTax & Macroeconomics
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Enacting a minimum wage for tipped workers is on the ballot in two U.S. cities. Here’s what the research says

LaborInequality & Mobility
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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: October 2022 Report Edition

LaborInequality & Mobility
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How corporate governance strategies hurt worker power in the United States

LaborInequality & Mobility

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