Licensing Occupations : Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?

Intro -- Contents -- 1 - Introduction and Overview -- 2 - Development of Occupational Licensing as a Labor Market Institution -- 3 - Quality and the Demand for Occupational Licensing -- 4 - Licensing, Labor Supply, and Earnings -- 5 - State Regulatory Policies and the Economy-wide Impacts of Licensing -- 6 - Comparing Licensing in the United States and the European Union -- 7 - The Emerging Labor Market Institution of Occupational Licensing -- Appendix A: Criteria for Regulating Occupations for Legislators and a Questionnaire for Occupations Seeking Regulation in Minnesota -- Appendix B: Data Sources -- Appendix C: Occupations Analyzed in the United States Using Multivariate Techniques -- References -- The Author -- Index -- About the Institute.