Knocking on Parents’ Doors: Regulation and Intergenerational Mobility
The paper looks at whether the propensity of young people to follow the same career path as one of their parents is driven by privileges of position arising from regulation [...]
Turning Schackles Into Bootstraps: Why Occupational Licensing Reform Is the Missing Piece of Criminal Justice REform
This study is the first of its kind to explore the relationship between three-year recidivism rates for new crimes and relate it to occupational licensing burdens by combining data from [...]
The Occupational Licensing Queue
Most previous work on occupational licensing has been concerned with effects on consumers. Proponents of licensing contend that the public may benefit from regulations that assure minimum quality. However, many [...]
The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and Its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares
We document a large increase in the cyclicality of the incomes of high-income households, coinciding with the rise in their share of aggregate income. In the United States, since top [...]
Occupational Licensing
The costs of failing a licensing exam, for example, in dentistry is the estimated present value cost of failing the exam, which was $54,000 in 1997 dollars when reduced earnings [...]
How occupational licensing matters for wages and careers
Using new data collected as part of the Current Population Survey, I focus on the ways that licensing affects the more than 20 percent of workers who have a license, [...]
The State of Occupational Licensure in Michigan
A 2017 study by the Institute for Justice (IJ) examined occupational licensure laws for 102 lower-income occupations and found that Michigan requires a license for 49 of them. Obtaining a [...]
Still Forbidden to Succeed: The Negative Effects of Occupational Licensing on Ohio’s Workforce
Building upon our earlier research, we have applied a macroeconomic dynamic scoring model developed by economists at The Buckeye Institute’s Economic Research Center to data collected by the U.S. Bureau [...]
Analyzing the Labor Market Outcomes of Occupational Licensing
Recent assessments of occupational licensing have shown varying effects of the institution on labor market outcomes. This study revisits the relationship between occupational licensing and labor market outcomes by analyzing [...]
The Labor-Market Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws in Nursing
We study the labor-market impacts of occupational licensing laws on nursing, an economically important occupation. States adopted licensing of registered and practical nurses at different times, which allows us to [...]