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It's good that we're making it easier for foreign doctors to stay in Canada, but what we really need is to make it easier for them to work as doctors.
West Virginia University: Knee Regulatory Research Center Releases Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database to Study U.S. Licensure in Unprecedented Depth and Detail. “Today, the Knee Regulatory Research Center—a nonpartisan research center focused on labor, health, and regulatory frontiers—announced the release of the Occupational Licensing Law Research Project Database […]
How State Occupational Licenses Affect Jobs and Salaries
Mercatus Working Paper by Christos A. Makridis and Patrick McLaughlin
https://www.mercatus.org/research/working-papers/occupational-licenses-affect-jobs-salaries
#economics #econ #employment #wages #occupationallicensing #regulation #statepolitics
Abstract: We present new data on regulatory restrictions across states and occupations between 2017 and 2022 to study the labor market effects of occupational licensing. First, we document three stylized facts: (a) regulatory restrictions across states and occupations have grown by nearly a factor of three since 2019, (b) increases in regulatory restrictions are concentrated in occupations with lower median hourly wages and higher within-occupation inequality, and (c) states that expanded regulatory restrictions tend to have lower Republican vote shares.
I'm excited to share a new policy brief I wrote with The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy on reforms to collateral consequences for #occupationallicensing. West Virginia has long struggled with employment and labor force participation. In this report, we discuss reforms in West Virginia and how it compares with its neighbors for improving economic opportunity:
Occupational licensing laws often present barriers to individuals seeking to reenter the workforce after criminal conviction. These barriers are called collateral consequences.
The audit committee's 4 Democrats vote no on the next two audits, one of work-from home practices & proposals, the other of the state's #OccupationalLicensing agency.
We have two sessions on #OccupationalLicensing this year at #ASSA2023 - come check us out if you can. I'll be presenting my joint research on a physician licensing compact on Friday at 2:30, and the second session is Sunday at 8am (but packed full of scholars that make going to an 8am session awesome).
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