Comments on: “Is Occupational Licensing Meant to Block Competition from Ethnic Minorities?” https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/occupational-licensing-meant-block-competition-ethnic-minorities/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:16:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Boblipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/occupational-licensing-meant-block-competition-ethnic-minorities/comment-page-1/#comment-269619 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 22:16:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44196#comment-269619 Meant? Usually not. Used for it? Yes.

Bob

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/occupational-licensing-meant-block-competition-ethnic-minorities/comment-page-1/#comment-269604 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:03:37 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44196#comment-269604 On the wider tendency of particular ethnicities to cluster in occupations and succeed each other over time (Italian neighborhood grocers giving way to Koreans who now are in turn giving way to newer groups, etc.) I think Thomas Sowell has a discussion pulling many threads together, but I can’t remember in which of his books it was.

]]> By: MattS https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/occupational-licensing-meant-block-competition-ethnic-minorities/comment-page-1/#comment-269603 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:00:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44196#comment-269603 @Anonymous Attorney,

All of them. The Coyote article looks at two maps of the US, one with the states shaded by number of occupations requiring licenses and the other shaded by the proportion of the population that are first gen immigrants. In both cases, darker shading equals more licensed occupations/more first gen immigrants. While hardly conclusive, the correlation between the darkest states on both maps is suggestive.

]]> By: Anonymous Attorney https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/02/occupational-licensing-meant-block-competition-ethnic-minorities/comment-page-1/#comment-269587 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:23:30 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=44196#comment-269587 I need more information. Which sectors are we talking about? What enterprises cannot be penetrated because of racist occupational licensing? I am not dismissing this entirely — ethnicities can dominate and exclude, of course.

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