Occupational regulation in the United States generally takes three forms. 1 The latter statistic compared with about 12.4 percent of the workforce who said they were union members in the Current Population Survey (CPS) for the same year. workforce was licensed by any level of government, and more than 800 occupations were licensed by at least one state in the 1990s. By 2008 approximately 29 percent of the U.S. In the 1950s, about 4.5 percent of the workforce was licensed by state governments. Occupational licensing is among the fastest growing institutions in the U.S. This article examines the influence of occupational licensing on the wages and workplace safety of electricians, one of the most regulated occupations directly involved in the construction industry. Analysts of government policies in the labor market have long held that licensing laws which restrict the supply of labor cause an increase in wages, but there has been little analysis of the influence of regulation on the conditions of work.
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