impact of licensing on hourly wages is much smaller than in the United States. The major empirical findings in Licensing Occupations are summarized in Table 1. Given these results of the labor market impacts of licensing, other forms of regulation, such as certification, are suggested. Alternative forms of occupational regulation may provide consumers with more choice than licensing and reduce ...

BACKGROUND The introduction of a systematic framework for the licensing of health care professions, which is a crucial step in ensuring the quality of human resources for health (HRH), is still evolving in Lao People's Democraic Republic. The aim of this study was to review and document the evolution of Lao HRH policies and the development of its national licensing system. CASE PRESENTATION A...

(page number not for citation purposes) 2016, Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. On December 23, 2015, the Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examinati...

Purpose. To assess how new National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) performance examinations—computerbased case simulations (CBX) and standardized patient exams (SPX)—compare with each other and with traditional internal and external measures of medical students’ performances. Secondary objectives examined attitudes of students toward new and traditional evaluation modalities. Method. Fourth-...