How Much of Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing?

Peter Blair and Bobby (Wing Yin) Chung

No 25262, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We exploit state variation in licensing laws to study the effect of licensing on occupational choice using a boundary discontinuity design. We find that licensing reduces equilibrium labor supply by an average of 17%-27%. The negative labor supply effects of licensing appear to be strongest for white workers and comparatively weaker for black workers.

JEL-codes: J21 K23 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-11
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Published as Peter Q. Blair & Bobby W. Chung, 2019. "How Much of Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing?," British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol 57(4), pages 919-943.

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