California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Some view low-wage jobs largely as entry-level stepping stones to higher-wage jobs. Others see low wages as a persistent feature of many workers ’ careers. In this post, we present estimates to help inform this debate.
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The 2026-27 Budget: California Competes Extension

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

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Assessing Recent Changes to California Competes

Mar 30, 2020 - GO‑Biz posts a list of tax credit agreements online . Companies that satisfy their agreed‑upon hiring and investment terms outlined in the agreements may claim a credit against their state corporation tax (CT) liabilities.
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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.
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Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Oct 31, 2017 - Review of the California Competes Tax Credit Peer ‑to ‑peer lending company Online video streaming service Online journalism company Insurance agent Small Businesses Not Fully Utilizing 25   Percent Set Aside.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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