How Much of Barrier to Entry is Occupational Licensing?

Peter Q. Blair and Bobby (Wing Yin) Chung

British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2019, vol. 57, issue 4, 919-943

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 labour supply by an average of 17–27 per cent.

Date: 2019
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