Journal of labor economics, 2005-07, Vol.23 (3), p.437-465
2005
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Doctors without borders?: Relicensing requirements and negative selection in the market for physicians
- Ist Teil von
- Journal of labor economics, 2005-07, Vol.23 (3), p.437-465
- Ort / Verlag
- Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Relicensing requirements for professionals who move across borders are widespread. In this article, we measure the effects of occupational licensing by exploiting an immigrant physician retraining assignment rule. Instrumental variables and quantile treatment effects estimates indicate large returns to acquiring an occupational license and negative selection into licensing status. We also develop a model of optimal license acquisition that, together with the empirical results, suggests that stricter relicensing requirements may lead not only to practitioner rents but also to lower average quality of service in the market for physicians.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0734-306XeISSN: 1537-5307DOI: 10.1086/430283Titel-ID: cdi_crossref_primary_10_1086_430283
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Arbeitsmarkt, Arzt, Bildungsertrag, Coefficients, Doctors, Empirical research, Employment, Employment statistics, Family physicians, Health care, Health economics, Human capital, Immigrants, Immigration policy, Instrumental variables estimation, Israel, Labor supply, Labour economics, Labour market structure, Licences, Licenses, Licensing, Medical practice, Migrant, Negative selection, Noncitizens, Occupational choice, Occupational licensing, Occupations, Patient assessment, Physicians, Quality of service, Retraining, Sowjetunion, Studies, U.S.A, Zulassung