Reformed bilingual education and universal health care are key to California's immigrants becoming employed, productive state residents, say two UC Davis scholars. Immigrants' social mobility could also be improved through better workplace regulation and more flexible social services, conclude Michael Peter Smith, a community studies and development professor, and Bernadette Tarallo, a research sociologist, with UC Davis' applied behavioral sciences department. Their study was published earlier this month by the California Policy Seminar, a joint UC-state government program. Through interviews with 170 immigrants and refugees, their study debunks several myths about immigrants and jobs. Among such myths is the belief immigrants are taking away jobs, when in fact, structural economic changes are altering the state's labor market; the vast majority of those immigrants interviewed work as unskilled labor in ethnic employment enclaves or as domestic or service workers in hotels and restaurants.