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Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation

Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 3.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of occupational licensing on the labor market, regulation, economic outcomes, and the quality of work. It delves into the effects on immigrants, barriers to entry, wage effects, and healthcare regulation.

  • Occupational Licensing
  • Labor Market
  • Regulation
  • Professional Certification
  • Economic Outcomes
  • Immigrants
  • Quality of Work
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Wage Effects
  • Healthcare Regulation
Research works
3.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
356
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation

Which countries lead Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (253 and 33 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 253 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 33 works
  3. 3 China 28 works
  4. 4 Australia 23 works
  5. 5 Canada 21 works
  6. 6 Germany 17 works
  7. 7 France 15 works
  8. 8 Italy 12 works
  9. 9 Spain 12 works
  10. 10 India 11 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 59.4%United Kingdom: 7.7%China: 6.7%Australia: 5.4%6 others listed: 20.8%59%largest
United States253 · 59.4%United Kingdom33 · 7.7%China28 · 6.7%Australia23 · 5.4%6 others listed89 · 20.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation research?

By volume in 2022-now, West Virginia University publishes the most Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation research, followed by Yale University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 West Virginia UniversityUnited States 5 works
  2. 2 Yale UniversityUnited States 5 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 5 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 4 works
  5. 5 The University of MelbourneAustralia 4 works
  6. 6 University of ChicagoUnited States 3 works
  7. 7 City University of New YorkUnited States 3 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 3 works
  9. 9 University of MinnesotaUnited States 3 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation include Herbert A. Simon.

  1. 1 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation?

The most cited paper in Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation is "The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor." (Pamela S. Tolbert, Andrew J. Abbott, 1990), with 5,672 citations. Next come "Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards" (1,500) and "Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber" (850).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The System of Professions: An Essay on the Division of Expert Labor. Pamela S. Tolbert, Andrew J. Abbott · Administrative Science Quarterly Jun 1990 5,672
2 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards Eileen D. Gambrill · Journal of Social Work Education Apr 2001 1,500
3 Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber Judd Cramer, Alan B. Krueger · American Economic Review May 2016 850
4 Lords of the Dance: Professionals as Institutional Agents W. Richard Scott · Organization Studies Open access Feb 2008 809
5 Behavior Problems and Mental Health Referrals of International Adoptees Femmie Juffer, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn · JAMA 24 May 2005 638
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation research done?

The largest centres of Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Chicago (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 15 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 12 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  4. 4 ChicagoUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 8 works
  6. 6 CambridgeUnited States 7 works
  7. 7 MinneapolisUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 MorgantownUnited States 5 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 5 works
  10. 10 PhiladelphiaUnited States 5 works
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Is Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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