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Title: From Certification To Licensure: Evidence From Registered And Practical Nurses In The United States, 1950-1970

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: 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.

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Authors: Marks, Mindy S.; Law, Marc T.

Periodical (Full): The European Journal of Comparative Economics

Issue: 2

Volume: 10

Pages: 177-198

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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