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Introduction Public-sector unions are central to some of the most contentious public policy issues in contemporary America. Do unions improve or impair the political process and elections? Do police unions…
The paper is “A Welfare Analysis of Occupational Licensing in U.S. States” by Morris M. Kleiner & Evan J. Soltas. Here’s the abstract: We assess the welfare consequences of occupational…
The N.C. Board of Funeral Service opposes a bill that would allow for provisional licenses for funeral directors here. Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, the governor just signed a law allowing for…
In The Right to Earn a Living Act: A Well-Considered Answer to Licensing, I examined the first two statement of findings behind the Right to Earn a Living Act. It is…
Putting it all together, Kleiner estimated that occupational licensing has left us with 2.85 million fewer jobs, the consequence being an annual cost to consumers of $203 billion (that's annually,…
Producing public policies that benefit all of society, but especially the poorest areas, would be another highly compelling reason to reform occupational licensing in North Carolina.
Thanks to JLF board member Ted Hicks for pointing us Bloomberg, which summarizes a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research about the impact of forcing people to…
During the 2015-16 school year, North Carolina licensed (via interstate reciprocity agreements) and subsequently employed 1,556 out-of-state teachers.1,2,3 At the same time, 828 public school teachers resigned to teach in…
Occupational licensing restrictions, essentially a tax on jobs are clearly a problem in NC as regular readers of this blog have learned here and here and here. Although NC has…
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek features an article headlined “Want to Sell Caskets? Get a License.” It’s companion article to Sho Chandra’s online piece about the problems associated with…
Last week the North Carolina General Assembly undertook the reformation of occupational licensing for landscape and irrigation contractors in Senate Bills 405 and 447. Like all occupational licensing programs, these…
John’s point that while North Carolina has more occupational licensing than South Carolina does, there is no reason to believe that NC residents are safer from incompetent practitioners than are…