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

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The wage divide for Black and Latinx workers goes deeper than a ‘skills gap’ or requiring more credentials

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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

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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Coronavirus Recession

U.S. retail sector’s recession experiences highlight continuing labor market travails

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JOLTS Day Graphs: November 2020 Edition

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