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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August Jobs Report: Uncertainty and teacher shortages loom over the new school year

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Labor Day: How unions promote racial solidarity in the United States

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Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: July 2021 Report Edition

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Kate Bahn testimony before the Joint Economic Committee on monopsony, workers, and corporate power

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Equitable Recovery

Policymakers should ensure that the U.S. labor market recovery lasts by boosting workers’ bargaining power and strengthening social infrastructure

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JOLTS Day Graphs: April 2021 Edition

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