Self-Regulation
Self-regulation encompasses a wide range of arrangements, from private ordering without resort to legal rules to state-enforced systems of delegated rules. Transaction cost analysis has been used to explain how [...]
Continuing Competence in Selected Health Care Professions
Health services professionals are confronting the challenge of maintaining and improving competence over the course of lengthy careers in diverse practice specialties. This article reviews the efforts of a selection [...]
Job Analysis: A Guide for Credentialing Organizations
There are also considerations that relate to how the concept of a job analysis will be received by board members and licensees or certificants. First, it is important to determine [...]
Guild-Ridden Labor Markets: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing
This book provides a detailed, nontechnical overview of occupational licensing in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and the European Union for students of the labor market, consumers, the [...]
The State of Occupational Licensing: Research, State Policies and Trends
State policymakers play an important role in setting licensure policy and are at the heart of many efforts to strike the right balance needed to protect consumers and promote economic [...]
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 [...]
Investment, Moral Hazard, and Occupational Licensing
I analyse occupational licensing as an input regulation that requires minimum levels of human capital investment by professionals. By raising professionals' training levels, licensing helps alleviate moral hazard problems associated [...]
The Economic Theory of Regulation: Evidence from the Uniform CPA Examination
The economic theory of regulation suggests that occupational licensing laws are enacted and administered to advance the interests of licensed practitioners. For example, grading standards on licensing examinations could be [...]
The Effects of Health Care Industry Changes on Health Care Workers and Quality of Patient Care
A number of recent studies have called for an overhaul of licensure for health care professionals. Common themes of these studies are increased flexibility in scopes of practice (much of [...]
The Case Against Licensing Health Professionals
Licensing confers a special authority, both literally and figuratively, which increases the likelihood of dependency on licensed personnel. The inequality of information available to the public, compared to the professional, [...]