Sylvia Allegretto

Research Economist

Biography

Sylvia A. Allegretto is a labor economist who joined IRLE in the spring of 2007. She received her Ph. D. in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and worked for several years at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC. In addition to numerous briefing papers and articles for EPI, Sylvia co-authored two editions of The State of Working America with Larry Mishel and Jared Bernstein. Her previous research has examined long-term unemployment, family budgets, teacher pay, and low-wage labor markets. Sylvia is currently working on analyses of minimum wage effects and on the sub-minimum wage received by tipped workers.