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Foxes At The Henhouse: Occupational Licensing Boards Up Close, Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Foxes At The Henhouse: Occupational Licensing Boards Up Close, Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The dark side of occupational licensing-its tendency to raise prices to consumers with dubious effects on service quality, its enormous payout to licensees, and its ability to shut many willing workers out of the workforce-has begun to receive significant attention. But little has been said about the legal institutions that create and administer this web of professional entry and practice rules. State-level licensing boards regulate nearly one-third of American workers, yet, until now, there has been no systematic attempt to understand who serves on these boards and how they operate. This Article undertakes an ambitious and comprehensive study of all …