Volume 13, Number 1 (Winter) 1978
White, William D. 1978. "The Impact of Occupations Licensure of Clinical Laboratory Personnel." Journal of Human Resources 13(1):91-102.
This paper develops a model of the economic impact of occupational licensure. The model is then used to estimate the effects of occupational licensure on wages and the division of labor in clinical laboratories and to generate a lower-bound estimate of the welfare impact of licensure. Estimates are based on cross-section and time-series data on areas with and without licensure of laboratory personnel. Recent licensure laws have no effect on wages or employment, but older, more stringent laws sharply increase the wages and employment of skilled personnel in laboratories.
The author is Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. This paper is based on Chapter 8 of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Economics, Harvard University, July 1975. Support for this research was provided by U.S. Department of Labor Doctoral Dissertation Grant 91-25-73-31 and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed in this paper are, however, those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of these organizations. I am grateful to Martin Feldstein, Brian Wright, anonymous referees, and members of the Labor Economics Workshop at the University of Chicago and the Economic Policy Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle for their comments or earlier drafts of this paper. Any mistakes are, of course, my own.
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