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 interests 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)
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Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019: Public school teachers earn about 20% less in weekly wages than nonteacher college graduates
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The teacher weekly wage penalty hit 21.4 percent in 2018, a record high: Trends in the teacher wage and compensation penalties through 2018
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The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high: Trends in the teacher wage and compensation gaps through 2017
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Teachers across the country have finally had enough of the teacher pay penalty
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Teachers make 17 percent less than similar workers
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The teacher pay gap is wider than ever: Teachers’ pay continues to fall further behind pay of comparable workers
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Teacher Pay Penalty
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Twenty-Three Years and Still Waiting for Change: Why It’s Time to Give Tipped Workers the Regular Minimum Wage
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The Unfinished March Toward a Decent Minimum Wage
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To Work With Dignity: The Unfinished March Toward a Decent Minimum Wage
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The Teaching Penalty: An update through 2010
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The state of working America’s wealth, 2011: Through volatility and turmoil, the gap widens
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Does ‘right-to-work’ create jobs? Answers from Oklahoma
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Waiting for Change: The $2.13 Federal Subminimum Wage
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The teaching penalty—We can’t recruit and retain excellent educators on the cheap
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The Teaching Penalty: Teacher Pay Losing Ground
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Workers returned to the labor market as employment opportunities expanded
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Dow’s all-time high inconsequential for most Americans
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The Gender Pay Gap is the Smallest on Record — Not Necessarily Good News
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The State of Working America 2006/2007
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Wealth inequality is vast and growing
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U.S. Government Does Little to Lessen Child Poverty Rates
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Increasing health costs can’t explain earnings dip for low-wage workers
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The wage squeeze and higher health care costs
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Wages Picture: January 18, 2006
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The American industry in crisis: Threats to middle-class jobs, wages, health care and pensions
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Basic family budgets better reveal the hardships in America
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Basic family budgets: Working families’ incomes often fail to meet living expenses around the U.S.
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U.S. workers enjoy far fewer vacation days than Europeans