Have license, will travel: Measuring the effects of universal licensing recognition on mobility

Darwyyn Deyo () and Alicia Plemmons

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 219, issue C

Abstract: Universal licensing recognition (ULR) is a recent policy trend in which states recognize other states’ licensing credentials, lowering labor market barriers for interstate migrants. Using county-to-county migration files from the Internal Revenue Service and policy-enactment dates from the Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation, we find a sizeable increase in average net migration (eleven tax filers, twenty-two dependents) from border counties in non-ULR states to contiguous border counties in ULR states each year, as well as an increase in adjusted gross income tax receipts in the ULR counties ($1.7 million). These effects dissipate at the state level.

Keywords: Occupational licensing; Mobility; Migration; Regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110800

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