California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Cengiz, Doruk, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner, and Ben Zipperer (2019). “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).
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - We apply this method to monthly CPS data from January 2022 through December 2023 to construct the estimates that appear in Figures 3 through 7 in the post Is California’s Minimum Wage High, Low, or Somewhere in Between?
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Figure  3 shows that most low-wage workers live in households without any children under 18. Roughly 20  percent live with one child, 15  percent with two children, and fewer than 10  percent with three or more children.
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - As shown in Figure  3, our estimates suggest that the share of workers in low-wage jobs declines by more than one-third between the ages of 25 and 32. This decline suggests that a substantial share of workers spend just a handful of years in low-wage jobs before moving on to mid-to-high-wage jobs.
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California’s Low-Wage Workers and Minimum Wage

Mar 11, 2024 - Over the last decade, two statutes —Chapter  351 of 2013 (AB  10, Alejo) and Chapter  4 of 2016 (SB  3, Leno) —gradually have increased California ’s statewide minimum wage from $8 per hour to $16 per hour.
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Evaluation of a Tax Exemption for Zero-Emission Buses

Apr 15, 2024 - In 2020, 11  percent of buses entering service for small transit agencies were ZEBs; by 2022, that share had grown to 38  percent. As described in the “Background ” section, the ICT establishes higher ZEB purchase requirements for large transit agencies than for small transit agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4890

The 2021-22 Budget: Business Tax Incentives

Jan 28, 2021 - For example, using the Governor ’s structure but setting the new PIT credit at 11  p ercent (as opposed to 13. 3  p ercent) of an individual ’s S corporation income could result in state revenue gains in the hundreds of millions of dollars per year while still increasing shareholders ’ after ‑tax income.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4327

The 2023-24 Budget: California's Film Tax Credit

Feb 28, 2023 - Evidence from Georgia and North Carolina. ” Evidence from Georgia and North Carolina (August 4, 2019) (2019). Bradbury, John Charles. “Do movie production incentives generate economic development? ” Contemporary Economic Policy 38.2 (2020): 327 ‑342.
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Fixing Unemployment Insurance

Dec 2, 2024 - Our recommended approach, as summarized in Figure  11 , has four parts: (1)  increase the taxable wage base, (2)  redesign employer tax rates, (3)  rethink employer experience rating, and (4)  refinance the federal loan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4943

The 2022-23 Budget: Temporary Limits on Business Tax Provisions

Jan 26, 2022 - In 2019, for example, 619 taxpayers operating in the manufacturing industry had more than $1  million in income and deducted $3  billion in NOLs in total. The administration estimates that the NOL suspension increased revenues by about $2  billion  in 2020 ‑21.
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