Occupational licensure has become one of the most significant labor market regulations in the United States that also may restrict the interstate movement of workers. We analyze the interstate migration of twenty-two licensed occupations. Using an empirical strategy that controls for unobservable characteristics that drive long-distance moves, we find that individuals in occupations with state-...

We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer their occupational human capital using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment a model of occupational choice and skill accumulation to derive predictions about the cross-border transferability of occupational hum...

This paper investigates the cross-occupation effect of offshorability on wage rates by examining the occupation switching behavior of workers previously employed in highly offshorable occupations. Instead of looking at the labor market for occupations that are traditionally vulnerable to import competition, we study the destination occupations for the workers displaced from import-competing sec...