Barrier to Entry or Signal of Quality? The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Minority Dental Assistants

Xia, Xing

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102027

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“…Overall, my findings speak to the distributional effects of occupational licensing by highlighting the importance of removing labor market barriers that limit marginalized populations from accessing employment. Studies have found that licensing disproportionately affects minority and female workers (Blair andChung, 2021, 2022;Chung and Zou, 2021;Law and Marks, 2009;Sheehan and Thomas, 2023;Xia, 2021). A few have studied licensing impacts on immigrants, including wage premiums (Cassidy and Dacass, 2021;Gomez et al, 2015;Tani, 2020) and employment (Federman et al, 2006;Peterson et al, 2014;Brücker et al, 2021).…”

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Effects of occupational license access on undocumented immigrants evidence from the California reform

Chung

2023

J Regul Econ

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In 2014, California lifted its legal work status requirement for dozens of occupational licenses -a major obstacle for undocumented immigrants in the US to access professional jobs. This paper assesses this policy's effects on the employment outcome of undocumented immigrants in the state. Analyzing likely undocumented immigrants in the American Community Survey, I find that the policy increased their employment, particularly in lower-education and blue-collar licensed occupations and for older and Hispanic workers. The effects were not driven by job switchers but by the unemployed transiting into employment. I also find that the law did not crowd out documented or US-born workers.

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Effects of occupational license access on undocumented immigrants evidence from the California reform

Chung

2023

J Regul Econ

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Effects of Occupational License Access on Undocumented Immigrants: Evidence from the California Reform

Chung

2023

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In 2014, California lifted legal work status requirement for dozens of occupational licenses - a major obstacle for undocumented immigrants in the US to access professional jobs. This paper assesses its effects on the employment outcome of undocumented immigrants in California. Analysing likely undocumented immigrants in the American Community Survey, I find that the law increased their employment, particularly in lower-skill or blue-collar licensed occupations, and older or Hispanic workers. I also find the law did not crowd out documented or domestic workers. JEL Classification: J15, J44, K37

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“…Unlike certification, occupational licensing mandates that individuals can engage in a particular occupation only if they satisfy specific predetermined criteria for competence. See, for example, Albert (2017), Kleiner and Krueger (2013), Vorotnikov (2017), andXia (2021). In addition, the literature finds that the effects of certification are larger among less-educated individuals (Baird et al 2021), suggesting the potential role of certification as a signal of skills in situations when general measures of human capital are not available.…”

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Signaling Worker Quality in a Developing Country: Lessons from a Certification Program

Mancino,

Morales,

Salazar

2023

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We evaluate the returns to signaling occupation-specific skills using unique administrative data from a nationwide certification program in Colombia. The program certifies skills and issues three certificates: basic, intermediate, and advanced. We use regression discontinuity methods to compare workers’ earnings around certificate assignment thresholds. Signaling advanced occupation-specific skills yields significant returns: 9.7% on average within two years of certification. Instead, we find no effects from signaling basic or intermediate occupation-specific skills. Two mechanisms drive our findings. First, the increase in earnings for salaried workers comes from promotions within a firm. Second, the certificate facilitates transitions from self-employment to salaried work.

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Barrier to Entry or Signal of Quality? The Effects of Occupational Licensing on Minority Dental Assistants

Cited by 6 publications

References 44 publications

Effects of occupational license access on undocumented immigrants evidence from the California reform

Effects of occupational license access on undocumented immigrants evidence from the California reform

Effects of Occupational License Access on Undocumented Immigrants: Evidence from the California Reform

Signaling Worker Quality in a Developing Country: Lessons from a Certification Program

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