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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19906
来源ID	Working Paper 19906
	Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements: Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service
	Morris M. Kleiner; Allison Marier; Kyoung Won Park; Coady Wing
发表日期	2014-02-20
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Occupational licensing laws have been relaxed in a large number of U.S. states to give nurse practitioners the ability to perform more tasks without the supervision of medical doctors. We investigate how these regulations may affect wages, employment, costs, and quality of providing certain types of medical services. We find that when only physicians are allowed to prescribe controlled substances that this is associated with a reduction in nurse practitioner wages, and increases in physician wages suggesting some substitution among these occupations. Furthermore, our estimates show that prescription restrictions lead to a reduction in hours worked by nurse practitioners and are associated with increases in physician hours worked. Our analysis of insurance claims data shows that the more rigid regulations increase the price of a well-child medical exam by 3 to 16 %. However, our analysis finds no evidence that the changes in regulatory policy are reflected in outcomes such as infant mortality rates or malpractice premiums. Overall, our results suggest that these more restrictive state licensing practices are associated with changes in wages and employment patterns, and also increase the costs of routine medical care, but do not seem to influence health care quality.
主题	Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Public Economics ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19906
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577580
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Morris M. Kleiner,Allison Marier,Kyoung Won Park,et al. Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements: Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service. 2014.