Licensing occupations: Ensuring quality or restricting competition?

Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-195

  Kleiner, Morris M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

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