Licensing occupations : ensuring quality or restricting competition? / Morris M. Kleiner.

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Kleiner, Morris M. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006.
Description
xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Summary note
    "Attempts to present a systematic discussion of the major benefits and costs of occupational licensing to the economies of the United States and several European countries."--Page xiii.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-180) and index.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface
    • 1. Introduction and overview
    • Licensing : a historical perspective
    • Social benefits of licensing
    • Quality and demand effects of occupational regulation
    • Licensing occupations and labor supply
    • Are there licensing wage and price premiums?
    • Comparing unions and licensing
    • Focus of the book
    • 2. Development of occupational licensing as a labor market institution
    • Development of occupational regulation
    • Quality first, then restrictions on competition?
    • Legal basis of state occupational licensing
    • How licensing works : a case study of Minnesota
    • Goals and effort of regulatory boards
    • How do occupations become licensed?
    • Licensing and quality of services in Minnesota and Wisconsin
    • Summary and conclusions
    • 3. Quality and demand for occupational licensing
    • Why are occupations regulated?
    • How licensing affects quality
    • Results of studies on the benefits of occupational regulation
    • Quality effects as measured through insurance premiums
    • Estimates of the price impacts
    • Summary and conclusions.
    • 4. Licensing, labor supply, and earnings
    • Theoretical background
    • License to drill : differences in earnings of dentists and physicians
    • Studies on the impact of licensing
    • Earnings of licensed versus unlicensed occupations
    • Partial state regulation of occupations
    • Small differences in licensing rules that may matter
    • Conclusions
    • 5. State regulatory policies and the economy-wide impacts of licensing
    • State data on the number of licensed occupations and the number of workers
    • Workforce coverage of licensed occupations by state
    • Trends in the regulation of licensed occupations
    • Licensing and economic losses to society
    • 6. Comparing licensing in the United States and the European Union
    • Occupational regulation in the EU
    • Governmental limitations on regulated occupations in the EU
    • Estimates of the impact of licensing on earnings, by country
    • Impact of licensing on earnings in the UK, France, and Germany
    • Implications for occupational regulation
    • 7. The emerging labor market institution of occupational licensing
    • Emergence of occupational licensing
    • The benefits and costs of standardization
    • Employment growth of the same occupations in regulated and unregulated states
    • Major findings
    • Public policy implications.
    • Appendix A : Criteria for regulating occupations for legislators and a questionnaire for occupations seeking regulation in Minnesota
    • Appendix B : Data sources
    • Appendix C : Occupations analyzed in the United States using multivariate techniques
    • References
    • The author
    • Index
    • About the Institute.
    ISBN
    • 0880992840 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780880992848 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0880992859 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780880992855 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    Tech. report no.
    NPT 5/2007
    LCCN
    2005028269
    OCLC
    61757986
    International Article Number
    • 9780880992848
    • 9780880992855
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