California Jobs Have Shifted Inland

The California Budget Project has an interesting new report contending that job growth is much stronger within California's inland counties versus the coastal counties:

While California has lost hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs in recent decades, manufacturing has expanded in inland counties. Between 1990 and 2005, the number of manufacturing jobs in inland counties increased by nearly 50,000 (19.4 percent), reaching more than 300,000 jobs in 2005. In contrast, the number of manufacturing jobs in coastal counties declined by more than half a million (30.8 percent) over the same period. The greatest gains in inland manufacturing jobs occurred in Riverside County, which added 18,400 jobs (55.3 percent), and San Bernardino County, which added 23,900 jobs (53.6 percent).

Update: The Jan 26, 2007 Los Angeles Times is reporting on the CBP study.