Economic Impact of Immigrants in California

A 64-page study, “The Impact of Immigration on the California Economy,” has been released. Commissioned by the California Economic Strategy Panel and authored by Stephen Levy of the Continuing Center of the California Economy is characterized as an effort to gauge the economic and fiscal impacts of immigration. Its principal finding is that California has done better than the national average over the past 15 years according to such measures as wages, job creation and unemployment.  All the indicators of economic activity have improved relative to the nation, so Levy asks, “How can it be that immigrants have messed up the economy?”

The report can be downloaded in pdf format at:

www.labor.ca.gov/panel/impactimmcaecon.pdf

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