The Purpose of Licensing
Only the correlation between the median year of licensing and the percentage of an occupation belonging to its association supports the profit hypothesis. This could, of course, be the result [...]
Effects of Professional Licensing Arrangements on Interstate Labor Mobility and Resource Allocation
The licensing of various professions is generally accepted as necessary to protect the public from incompetent and dishonest practitioners. At the same time, however, licensing restricts freedom of entry and [...]
An Aggregative Model of Resource Allocation in a Metropolitan Area
The general ideas that motivate the selection of the model developed below are commonplace in the voluminous recent literature on urban economics and geography. It has frequently been observed that [...]
Occupational Licensing: An Argument for Asserting State Control
Although the topic of state licensing has received voluminous exposure, city occupational licensing remains a part of the law that has been hurriedly bypassed. A closer look at this level [...]
Administrative Discretion in Zoning
Many urban designers today severely criticize traditional, "Euclidean" zoning theory for failing to accord administrative discretion a sufficiently important role. Zoning codes limit land uses and the size and location [...]
Exclusionary Zoning and Equal Protection
It is something of a natural law of urban development that population pressure is exerted from the center of the city outward. Increasing dilapidation of housing in central cities, plus [...]
Occupational Licensing and the Public Interest
Occupational licensing has been justifiable in the view of legislatures on the grounds that it protects the public interest; often, however, it is the producers of the good or service [...]
The effect of zoning on land value
Two types of zoning are identified: externality zoning, which is designed to achieve a Pareto efficient pattern of land use, and fiscal zoning, which is designed to accomplish some other [...]
On the effect of fiscal zoning on land and housing values
The note is a comment on and extension of “The Effect of Zoning on Land Value,” by J. C. Ohls, R. C. Weisberg, and M. J. White. It is suggested [...]
Occupational Licensing: A Warning
In a recent case (Gibson u. Berryhill 1973) the [Supreme] Court had the opportunity to review occupational licensing. In this case a group of licensed optometrists sought to prevent charges [...]