Sylvia A. Allegretto
Economist
Areas of expertise
Income inequality • Family budgets • Unions • Collective bargaining
Biography
Sylvia Allegretto is currently an economist at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. She co-authored two editions of The State of Working America while working as an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. She joined EPI in 2003 after receiving her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is also co-author of two EPI studies, How does teacher pay compare? and The Teaching Penalty: Teacher Pay Losing Ground. Dr. Allegretto’s research insterests include economic inequality, unemployment duration, family budgets, low-wage labor markets, the minimum wage, and the sub-minimum wage recieved by tipped workers.
Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder (2003)
Publications by Sylvia A. Allegretto
Report
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March 30, 2011 | The Teaching Penalty: An update through 2010
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March 24, 2011 | The state of working America’s wealth, 2011: Through volatility and turmoil, the gap widens
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Feb. 28, 2011 | Does ‘right-to-work’ create jobs? Answers from Oklahoma
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Feb. 28, 2011 | What’s wrong with ‘right-to-work’: Chamber’s numbers don’t add up
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Feb. 23, 2011 | Waiting for Change: The $2.13 Federal Subminimum Wage
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Jan. 26, 2006 | The wage squeeze and higher health care costs
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Aug. 30, 2005 | Basic family budgets: Working families’ incomes often fail to meet living expenses around the U.S.
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May 25, 2005 | The rising stakes of job loss: Stubborn long-term joblessness amid falling unemployment rates
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Feb. 16, 2005 | The Lukewarm 2004 Labor Market: Despite Some Signs of Improvement, Wages Fell, Job Growth Lagged, and Unemployment Spells Remained Long
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March 3, 2004 | Educated, experienced, and out of work: Long-term joblessness continues to plague the unemployed
Economic snapshot
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Jan. 24, 2007 | Workers returned to the labor market as employment opportunities expanded
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Oct. 11, 2006 | Dow’s all-time high inconsequential for most Americans
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Sept. 6, 2006 | The Gender Pay Gap is the Smallest on Record — Not Necessarily Good News
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Aug. 22, 2006 | Wealth inequality is vast and growing
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July 19, 2006 | U.S. Government Does Little to Lessen Child Poverty Rates
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April 11, 2006 | Increasing health costs can’t explain earnings dip for low-wage workers
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Aug. 31, 2005 | Basic family budgets better reveal the hardships in America
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Aug. 24, 2005 | U.S. workers enjoy far fewer vacation days than Europeans
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May 18, 2005 | Unemployment rate and long-term unemployment continue to diverge
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Oct. 27, 2004 | Female job seekers have fewer opportunities than in the past
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Aug. 11, 2004 | Current recovery blind to education attainment
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June 22, 2004 | Social expenditures and child poverty—the U.S. is a noticeable outlier
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Feb. 18, 2004 | The highly educated are the latest victims of the weak recovery
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Jan. 20, 2004 | Economic evidence supports the need for Congress to resume TEUC
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Sept. 10, 2003 | Further evidence of weak demand for new employees
Economic Indicators
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Jan. 18, 2006 | Wages Picture: January 18, 2006
Testimony
Book
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March 5, 2008 | The Teaching Penalty: Teacher Pay Losing Ground
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Aug. 28, 2006 | The State of Working America 2006/2007
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Sept. 2, 2004 | The State of Working America 2004-05
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Aug. 24, 2004 | How Does Teacher Pay Compare? Methodological Challenges and Answers
Commentary
April 30, 2008 | The teaching penalty—We can’t recruit and retain excellent educators on the cheap
Jan. 12, 2006 | The American industry in crisis: Threats to middle-class jobs, wages, health care and pensions