Fact Sheet The California Economy: Underemployed and Discouraged Workers By Sarah Bohn, Monica Bandy Dec 19, 2014
Report Business Without Borders? The Globalization of the California Economy By Howard J. Shatz Jun 17, 2003 State policymakers have long focused on boosting California exports and attracting foreign companies, but global economic integration is likely to provide new challenges and opportunities. This report describes California’s global exposure with special emphasis on goods and services trade, foreign direct investment, and port activity. It finds that the California economy does not differ markedly from the rest of the United States in some standard measures of economic globalization, but that California firms are at the leading edge of several emergent trends. Compared to the rest of the United States, California exports more services and manufactured goods, and its ports ship more exports by air than by land or sea. Also, California manufacturers are more likely to use production sharing than other U.S. firms.
Report Income Inequality and Economic Opportunity in California By Sarah Bohn, Dean Bonner, Julien Lafortune, Tess Thorman Dec 7, 2020 The current recession threatens to deepen California’s economic divide and further reduce opportunities for low-income families, communities of color, and women. State policy actions could promote an equitable recovery and address widening income inequality.
Occasional Paper, Report Small Business and the Globalization of California’s Economy By Howard J. Shatz Sep 5, 2003 Testimony prepared for the field hearing of the Subcommittee on Tax, Finance, and Exports of the Committee on Small Business of the United States House of Representatives, September 2003.
Statewide Survey PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Economic Well-Being By Mark Baldassare, Dean Bonner, Rachel Lawler, Deja Thomas Nov 9, 2021 Our latest survey examines views on the state’s economy as well as residents’ perspectives on their employment and personal finances.
Occasional Paper, Report California and the World Economy: Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and U.S. Trade Policy By Ernesto Vilchis, Jon D. Haveman, Howard J. Shatz Dec 1, 2002
