Doctors without borders: The returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

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• dc.contributor.author Kugler, Adrianaca
• dc.contributor.author Sauer, Robertca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T10:50:39Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-26T10:50:39Z
• dc.date.issued 2002-10-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:07:15Z
• dc.description.abstract Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of Health provides an exogenous source of variation in re-licensing outcomes. Instrumental variables and quantile treatment effects estimates of the returns to an occupational license indicate excess wages due to occupational entry restrictions and negative selection into licensing status. We develop a model of optimal license acquisition which suggests that the wages of high-skilled immigrant physicians in the nonphysician sector outweigh the lower direct costs that these immigrants face in acquiring a medical license. Licensing thus leads to lower average quality of service. However, the positive earnings effect of entry restrictions far outweighs the lower practitioner quality earnings effect that licensing induces.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=648
• dc.identifier.citation Journal of Labor Economics, June 2005
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/1202
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 648
• dc.rights L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons
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• dc.subject.keyword licensing
• dc.subject.keyword occupational mobility
• dc.subject.keyword regulation
• dc.subject.keyword information and product quality
• dc.subject.keyword immigration
• dc.subject.keyword regression dicontinuity design
• dc.subject.keyword quantile regression
• dc.subject.keyword quantile treatment effects
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.subject.keyword Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
• dc.title Doctors without borders: The returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israelca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper