California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - “Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations. ” Washington Center for Equitable Growth Working Paper Series.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/3

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

Mar 18, 2025 - On paper, the $25  million proposal is tied to capital investment at the DCF. Over the next decade, however, Natcast estimates that its capital expenditures to develop the DCF will total around $650  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - “Selection in Surveys: Using Randomized Incentives to Detect and Account for Nonresponse Bias. ” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper 29549. Machado, Jose and Jose Mata (2005). “Counterfactual Decomposition of Changes in Wage Distributions Using Quantile Regression. ” Journal of Applied Econometrics 20: 445-465.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4878/4

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - During the phase ‑in period, the state also entered the dot ‑com recession. These two cost pressures absorbed the remaining flexibility in the state ’s UI tax system. As  shown in Figure  4 , the state began this period in Schedule C but quickly moved to Schedule F+, the highest tax schedule, where it has remained since.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943