Occupational Barriers

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Laws, Licenses and the Offender's Right to Work: A Study of State Laws Restricting the Occupational

Occupational licensing reform to remove barriers to employment for people with criminal records has been taking place for decades. This...

Guild-Ridden Labor Markets: The Curious Case of Occupational Licensing

Licensing should be deregulated and certification should be used in its place whenever possible, argues the author. Delving into the...

Testing the Utility of Licensing: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Occupational Regulation

Licensing an occupation may be more motivated by increasing the wages for people that are already members of that profession through...

The Undertaker's Cut: Challenging the Rational Basis for Casket Licensure

Increasing the wages for people that are already members of a specific profession by limiting competition is more often the motivation...

Occupational Licensing and American Workers

Lower wages and higher unemployment for unlicensed workers and decreased mobility for licensed workers suggest there are large social...

A License For Protection: Why are States Regulating More and More Occupations?

The recent boom in occupational licensing has been driven in part by people who are already members of that occupation, out of a desire...

Sanctioned Unemployment: The Impact of Occupational Licensing Restrictions on Ex-Offenders

The broad discretion given to licensing boards to approve or deny licensure leads to biased and arbitrary decision-making, creating...