California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - The main exception is that high wages are top-coded: all wages above a certain amount are assigned the same value. In high-wage states like California, top-coding seriously hinders analyses that consider the upper portion of the wage distribution.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Income Mobility in California Across Generations - Income Mobility from the Top, Middle, and Bottom [Video]

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Income Mobility from the Top, Middle, and Bottom January 4, 2017
https://lao.ca.gov/Videos/Player?playlistId=108&videoId=166

Review of the California Competes Tax Credit

Oct 31, 2017 - Tradability is important in the context of California Competes because the expansion of such businesses need not come at the expense of other California businesses —economic growth is not a zero sum game.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3709

Income Mobility in California Across Generations

Jan 4, 2017 - Just over 20 percent of these children end up in the top two–fifths as adults. Outcomes Among Children Born Into Top Fifth of Incomes. Figure 6 shows that 53 percent of Californian children born in the top fifth remain in the top two–fifths as adults.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3518

California's Fiscal Outlook: The 2010-11 Budget [Publication Details]

Nov 18, 2009 - Addressing this large shortfall will require painful choices—on top of the difficult choices the Legislature made earlier this year. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2143

Annual Report on Tax Exemptions for Medicinal Cannabis

Jul 1, 2021 - The top panel of the figure summarizes the total weight of donations whose weights were specified in the Metrc data. The bottom panel summarizes the number of donated packages whose weights were not specified.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4447

Improving California’s Unemployment Insurance Program

Aug 8, 2022 - Recent Actions Suggest Getting Payments to Workers Is Not a Top Priority In addition to longstanding policies and procedures that make it difficult for eligible workers to get benefits, recent actions during the pandemic also suggest that getting payments to eligible workers is not a top priority for the state.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4615

Abusive Tax Shelters: Impact of Recent California Legislation [Publication Details]

Jan 27, 2006 - Given this, it will be important that the Legislature stay on top of the ATS situation. As one approach to accomplishing this, it may want to periodically review FTB’s ATS-related activities, including how well it is allocating its budgeted resources to get the best return on ATS activities and informing the Legislature about programmatic changes that will help address the ATS problem.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/1373

How Will Aging Baby Boomers Affect Future Property Tax Revenues?

Jun 20, 2017 - Top Left: Older Homeowners, Lower Home Price Growth. Cities in this group —such as Hemet, Redding, and Richmond —have a significant amount of older homeowners but have experienced less home price growth in prior years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3693

California’s First Film Tax Credit Program

Sep 29, 2016 - If a project was allocated a film tax credit during the initial allocation period, it was roughly 5  percent more likely to be made —at all, anywhere —than the projects that did not win the lottery and were initially placed onto a waitlist.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3502