Browsing: Work

What is occupational licensing? How does it affect labor markets, wages, prices and interstate migration? Morris Kleiner, professor and AFL-CIO chair in Labor Policy at the University of Minnesota and author of “At What Cost? State and National Estimates of the Economic Cost of Occupational Licensing,” discusses his research at the Badger Institute’s Policy Symposium.

Badger Institute analysis: Current restrictions undermine lawmakers’ intent, create obstacles to employment.

New report doesn’t include comparisons with other states and policy recommendations

The fiscal calamity looming for our neighbor to the south could help lure businesses and workers to the Badger State

Authors: Even a small increase would have large economic impact.

Numbers and nuggets from trends in Wisconsin — on everything from the state’s tax rankings to our workforce shortage to the growth in occupational licensing to corrections to the transportation funding dilemma to the decline of the mainstream media.

Measure eliminates Wisconsin’s arbitrary higher exam scores, which had fenced out many aspiring chiropractors.

Wisconsin’s ‘arbitrary’ exam scores fencing out many young professionals

Institute welcomes first member of new Visiting Fellows Program.

Badger State requires higher score on national exam than most other states

Palmer College chiropractic student Amanda Berkley testifies in favor of 2017 AB 834 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Regulatory Licensing Reform on January 18, 2018

2017 AB 834 would lower score required for successful completion of chiropractic examinations.

Several regulations removed from the books, freeing professionals from onerous and unneeded requirements

Measures lift onerous restrictions on barbers and cosmetologists that stifle careers and businesses.

In London, American swimmer Katie Ledecky won an Olympic gold medal at the age of 15.

Claiming to have a workforce strategy without a real strategy to attract and retain people makes little sense.
By Tom Hefty
June 28, 2017

UW students can’t launch Uber-like haircut business in Wisconsin without action from Legislature

Albert Walker, whose clients include many Packers players, has years of experience but can’t run his own shop

Ex-offender Albert Walker and Packer Mike Daniels discuss Walker’s new barber lounge in Green Bay. The shop is in jeopardy due to an onerous and unnecessary state licensing law.

Wisconsin currently licenses hundreds of professions. Some of those are unobjectionable, but other licenses are problematic.

Beauty school graduate from Milwaukee just wants to work but has been thwarted for over a year.