Denial of Economic Opportunities: The Case of Barber Licensing – Arkansas Center for Research in Economics
By Caleb Taylor What was the motivation and reasoning behind the original state regulation of barbers in Arkansas? ACRE Research Fellow Tanner Corley explored this question and more in an op-ed, “Hairy regulations,” published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on December 11. According to Corley, Arkansas barbers were able to appeal to fears of unsanitary barber shops in order to pass a 1937 Arkansas barber law that required six months of barber practice or 1,000 hours in training. Corley writes: When the barbers used licensing laws to seek better wages and less competition, they wer...
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