Doctors without borders? Re-licensing requirements and negative selection in the market for physicians

Relicensing requirements for professionals who move across borders are widespread. In this article, we measure the effects of occupational licensing by exploiting an immigrant physician retraining assignment rule. Instrumental variables and quantile treatment effects estimates indicate large returns...

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Main Authors: Sauer, Robert (Author), Kugler, Adriana (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2005.
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