The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

Mar 18, 2026 - Required applicants to demonstrate that receiving the credit would influence their decision to create jobs in California. Allowed GO-Biz to consider job training opportunities as a factor when awarding credits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5162

The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - Funding another round of California Competes grants could create jobs at a time when private sector job growth has been sluggish. However, we suggest weighing the expansion of these economic development efforts against other budget priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Of course, some workers at these ages presumably move from low-wage jobs to mid-to-high-wage jobs, but such movement does not appear to be much larger than movemen t in the opposite direction. Substantial Share of Workers in Their Late Thirties Are in Low-Wage Jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/2

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Whether the worker holds multiple jobs. The worker ’s gender. The worker ’s race/ethnicity. Using the Model to Estimate Percentiles. We consider five different specifications of the model for Figures 3 and 7, and four different specifications for Figures 4, 5, and 6.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  5, roughly half of low-wage workers work at least 40 hours per week at their primary jobs. (In the CPS, roughly 4  percent of California ’s low-wage workers indicate that they hold multiple jobs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/1

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - “The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs. ” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 134(3). Clemens, Austin, Kavya Vaghul, John Schmitt, and Will McGrew (2019). “Interactive: Comparing Wages Within and Across Demographic Groups in the United States. ” Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The first part of this report describes low-wage workers' occupations, genders, races/ethnicities, birthplaces, household structures, educational attainment, and weekly hours. The second part focuses on low-wage workers' ages. The third part compares the statewide minimum wage to various benchmarks to assess whether it is high, low, or somewhere in between.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878

Assessing Recent Changes to California Competes

Mar 30, 2020 - Number of Jobs Created Unclear. The companies awarded credits in 2018 ‑19 agreed to create more than 13,000 jobs and invest a total of $ 2  b illion. We cannot say whether these figures represent the net economic impact of these tax credit agreements in California.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4213

Evaluation of a Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Manufacturers

Dec 11, 2018 - Assumptions That Understate Net Benefit Omits Indirect Job Creation. CAEATFA application scoring includes two types of jobs. The first type consists of employees who work for the business that purchases the tax ‑exempt equipment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3907

The 2018-19 Budget: California Hiring Tax Credits

Mar 15, 2018 - This requirement assumes that a full ‑time job is preferable to a part ‑time job when that may not always be the case. In some cases, an employer may prefer to hire new employees on a part ‑time evaluative basis before increasing the employee ’s hours or promoting them to a full ‑time position.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3784