Occupational Licensing
Grave Consequences for Economic Liberty: The Funeral Industry\u27s Protectionist Occupational Licensing Scheme, the Circuit Split, and Why It Matters
... In a February 2011 Wall Street Journal article, a short list was compiled of jobs that are subject to occupational licensing regulations in at least one or more states. 119 The list was comprised of four ...
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
... that occupational licensing serves as a means to enforce entry barriers to a profession that raise ...that licensing is associated with a larger wage premium when the license is issued at the state ...
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Investigating Inequality: Peer Effects and Occupational Licensing
... additional licensing requirements by race and ...of occupational licensing for men but not ...additional licensing requirements, the only significant effects are a negative effect of ...
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Guild-Ridden Labor Markets: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing
... for licensing occupations is that it eliminates or reduces the consumer’s risk of seeking the services from practitio- ners of an ...Consequently, occupational licensing may also reduce patients’ ...
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Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing
... on occupational licensing in the United States were restricted to classi fi cations as to whether various occupations were licensed at the state level, often based on the America’s Career InfoNet data ...
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Occupational Licensing and the Limits of Public Choice Theory
... Indeed, occupational licens- ing schemes often serve no other purpose ...with occupational licensing and to intervene to pro- tect the public from the worst excesses of that ...Competition: ...
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Intermediate Scrutiny as a Solution to Economic Protectionism in Occupational Licensing
... tougher licensing standards were irrelevant to standards of dental ...examining occupational licensing of opticians found that licensing laws increased consumer costs and optician salaries but ...
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Unlocking Access to Health Care: A Federalist Approach to Reforming Occupational Licensing
... 66. See Dent v. West Virginia, 129 U.S. 114, 122 (1889). (“The power of the State to provide for the general welfare of its people authorizes it to prescribe all such regulations as in its judgment will secure or tend to ...
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
... can licensing raise wages? Unlike unions, which can engage in concerted activities such as strikes or work slowdowns, licensed workers do not sign collective agreements with their ...wages. Occupational ...
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The Effect of Occupational Licensing on Workplace Injuries and Death in Construction
... of occupational licensing as an important labor market institution there has been little empirical work on the influence of occupational regulation on workplace injuries and ...in occupational ...
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The Multiple Justifications of Occupational Licensing
... 195. The protection of consumers and the public has been articulated by the Supreme Court to justify occupational licensing. See, e.g., Thomas v. Collins, 323 U.S. 516, 545 (1945) (Jackson, J., concurring) ...
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
... that licensing is associated with a larger wage premium when the license is issued at the state as opposed to local level suggests that competition is more effectively restricted when there is no possibility of ...
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Sanctioned Unemployment: The Impact of Occupational Licensing Restrictions on ExOffenders
... of occupational licensing is essential to integrate rehabilitation efforts during incarceration and those efforts made ...(1) licensing boards must consider rehabilitation factors in assessing an ...
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The Impact of Introducing Mandatory Occupational Licensing
... from occupational licensing can be twofold: (i) a reduction in consumer uncer- tainty regarding the quality of a product or service, and (ii) an increase in the quality of the good or service ...of ...
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Reforming Occupational Licensing Policies
... framework, occupational licensing functions as if the government were granting a monopoly in the market for the service, with the long-term impacts being lower-quality services, too few providers, and ...
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The influence of Occupational Licensing and Regulation
... of licensing on service quality in occupations that are not widely licensed, such as interior designers and ...tougher licensing requirements ...that occupational licensing affects wages, ...
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An Analysis of Occupational Licensing Policies in Texas
... a licensing measure support from a group representing consumers when the Coalition for Patient Safety registered in support of the bill to license anesthesiology ...of occupational licensing, as no ...
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The Challenge to Occupational Licensing Laws for Funeral Directors by Direct Cremation Businesses: An Examination and Proposed Solution
... Jordan, General Manager and Director, National Cremation Society (Aug.. Directors Association took the position that all activities involving the disposition of the dea[r] ...
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Don\u27t Bury the Competition: The Growth of Occupational Licensing and a Toolbox for Reform
... protecting the benefits of competition while deferring to state policy choices would not end regulatory diversity in the states; it would provide a much- needed che[r] ...
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The Impact of Occupational Licensing on Labor Market Outcomes of College-Educated Workers
... studies, licensing has been found to increase workers’ earnings, often by a substantial amount (Gittleman & Kleiner, 2016; Kleiner & Vorotnikov, ...strong licensing premium has been attributed to ...
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