Kathleen Utgoff, an American economist, was Commissioner of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2002–2006.
Education
Utgoff holds a BA degree in Economics from
California State University, Northridge, and a PhD in Economics from
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...
(1978).
Career
Utgoff began her career at the
Center for Naval Analyses
CNA, formerly known as the CNA Corporation, is a federally-funded nonprofit research and analysis organization based in Arlington County, Virginia. CNA has around 625 employees.
General
CNA operates:
* The Center for Naval Analyses. CNA's Cente ...
and served as a senior economist at the
Council of Economic Advisers during the
Reagan administration
Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over ...
. President Reagan appointed her as executive director of the
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is a United States federally chartered corporation created by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to encourage the continuation and maintenance of voluntary private defined b ...
in 1985.
During her time as Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS increased the number of data series published and expanded internet-based data collection. Utgoff is also credited with establishing an "unofficial motto" for BLS: "When asked whether the glass is half full or half empty, the bureau’s response is, It’s an eight-ounce glass with four ounces of liquid."
Selected works
* Utgoff, Kathleen Classen. "Compensation levels and quit rates in the public sector." Journal of Human Resources (1983): 394-406.
* Utgoff, Kathleen P., and Zvi Bodie. "The PBGC: A costly lesson in the economics of federal insurance." In Government Risk-Bearing, pp. 145–166. Springer, Dordrecht, 1993.
* Utgoff, Kathleen P. "Pension Reform Strengthens Defined-Benefit Plans." Compensation and Benefits Management 4 (1988): 273-5.
References
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American women economists
Economists from California
20th-century American economists
21st-century American economists
Bureau of Labor Statistics
United States Department of Labor officials
George W. Bush administration personnel
American civil servants
California State University, Northridge alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Labor economists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women