Occupational licensing is increasingly widespread throughout American industry. Incumbent firms believe that licensing prevents competition by new entrants that would drive down prices. Public ...

A theoretical model is presented for the study of values and occupational choice, designed to extend existing models in two directions: to cope with the source of values, and to account for changes in ...

Self-recruitment to dentistry provides an excellent case of the purposive or negotiated nature of occupational choice, especially of the skilled and professional occupations. Choices were made as ...