California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - and Figures 1 and 2 in the post How Long Do People Stay in Low-Wage Work? For these figures, we define low-wage workers as employees who made up to $17.50 per hour at their main job in 2023. Estimate Probit Regressions.
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Differences in Weekly Hours Amplify Earnings Inequality. Figure  5 shows that mid-to-high-wage workers are much more likely to work full-time than low-wage workers. As a result, the gap between these groups ’ weekly earnings is wider than the gap between their hourly wages.
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - “Gender Wage Gap Widens Even As Low-Wage Workers See Strong Gains. ” Working Economics Blog, Economic Policy Institute. Wiltshire, Justin, Carl McPherson, and Michael Reich (2023). “Minimum Wage Effects and Monopsony Explanations. ” Washington Center for Equitable Growth Working Paper Series.
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Much Lower Mobility After Age 32. Strikingly, net mobility out of low-wage work seems to stop abruptly when workers are in their early 30s. Between the ages of 32 and 40, the estimated rate of low-wage work declines so slowly that it is nearly flat.
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Tax Credit Expansions in the American Rescue Plan

Apr 13, 2021 - Federal EITC The federal EITC is a provision of the federal income tax code that allows filers with total income below a certain level to reduce their tax liability by an amount that depends on their earnings from paid work or self-employment.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4410

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

Mar 18, 2025 - From 2015-2018, according to a rigorous third-party evaluation , LA:RISE participants had higher earnings and employment while working at an ESE but did not see long-term benefits after the transitional job ended.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - While it is reasonable to expect that some workers would make too much money for UI to replace half of their earnings, California ’s benefit levels only meet the federal wage replacement standard for half of the state ’s workers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2026-27 Budget: CDTFA’s Cannabis and Tobacco Programs

Feb 23, 2026 - Subscribe | California State Legislature | Online Voter Registration | Privacy Policy | Accessibility Legislative Analyst's Office | The California Legislature's Nonpartisan Fiscal and Policy Advisor 925 L Street, Suite 1000 Sacramento, CA 95814 | (916) 445-4656
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The 2025-26 Budget: California’s Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2025 - Motion Picture Industry Workers Earn Above Average Wages. In 2023, workers in California ’s motion picture industry earned a weekly wage of over $2,700 on average, 60  percent higher than the average weekly wage in California across all industries ($1,730).
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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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