 Licensure - Restricting Entry: Encyclopedia II - Licensure - Restricting EntryMilton Friedman (1979) notes that licensure is widely used to restrict entry, particularly for occupations like medicine that have many individual practitioners dealing with a large number of individual customers (see for example the American Medical Association). The justification given by lobbyists for licensure laws is always to protect the consumer, but the real motivation behind licensure is to limit the supply of specific kinds of labor in order to raise their wages.
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