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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Adriana Kugler and Robert Sauer

No 3683, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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 pro- ides an exogenous source of variation in re-licensing outcomes. Instrumental variables and quantile treatment effects estimates of the returns to an occupa- ional license indicate excess wages due to occupational entry restrictions and negative selection into licensing status. We develop a model of optimal license acquisition that suggests that the wages of high-skilled immigrant physicians in the non-physician sector outweigh the lower direct costs that these immigrants face in acquiring a medical license. Licensing thus leads to lower average quality of service. The positive earnings effect of entry restrictions far outweighs the lower practitioner quality earnings effect that licensing induces.

Keywords: Licensing; Occupational mobility; Regulation; Information and product quality; Immigration; Regression discontinuity design; Quantile regression; Quantile treatment effects model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D45 J24 J31 J61 J62 L15 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-01
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