Autori
Law, Marc T.
Marks, Mindy S.

Titolo
From certification to licensure: evidence from registered and practical nurses in the United States, 1950-1970
Periodico
European Journal of Comparative Economics
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 10 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 177 - Pagina finale: 198

In this paper we use individual-level census data on registered and practical nurses in the United States from 1950-70 to determine the effect that the switch from certification to licensure had on wages and participation in the registered and practical nurse professions. We examine these occupations to take advantage of a quasi-experiment afforded by the fact that, by the beginning of our sample, all states already had certification in place and some states already required a license. During the subsequent decade several states switched from certification to a mandatory licensing regime while others did not. Accordingly, we infer the effect of licensure in a differences-in-differences framework that uses states that did not change their regulatory regime as a control. Interestingly, we find that the shift from certification to mandatory licensing had little to no effect on the wages or the participation rate of practical and registered nurses.



SICI: 1824-2979(2013)10:2<177:FCTLEF>2.0.ZU;2-T
Testo completo: http://eaces.liuc.it/Default.asp?tipo=articles&identifier=ejce:18242979/2013/02/04

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