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

American policymakers are approaching cross-ideological consensus about the use and abuse of occupational licensing. Occupational licensing is a kind of labor regulation that has spread across America ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of December 29, 1970, states “An Act: To assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women …” Section 5 of the Act titled Duties goes on to ...

In 1985, the Army Research Institute (ARI) asked the National Academy of Sciences to explore the utility and effectiveness of various techniques to enhance human performance. The Academy, through the ...

Workplace exposure to gases, dusts, fumes, and aromatic solvents used in paints, varnishes, and glues, is linked to waning lung capacity above and beyond that associated with normal aging, finds a ...

In today’s uncertain economic environment, standardized information about the characteristics of jobs is helpful to match job-seekers with vacancies, provide a foundation of basic information about ...