Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations – ROBSON – June 2024 OECD discussion

This presentation by Professor Alex Robson, Deputy Chair of Australia’s Productivity Commission, was made during the discussion “Competition and Regulation in Professions and Occupations” held at the 77th meeting of the OECD Working Party No. 2 on Competition and Regulation on 10 June 2024. More papers and presentations on the topic can be found at oe.cd/crps.

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1. 10 June 2024
Dr Alex Robson, Deputy Chair
Occupational Licensing
Roundtable on competition and regulation in professional
services, OECD, Paris

2. 2
Outline
1.Advancing Prosperity: The Commission’s 5 year review
2.Occupational licensing
3.Recommendations

3. 3
Productivity growth over 60 years

4. 4
The nature of the long term challenge
1.Smallchanges overlongperiods matter
2.Yeast or mushrooms?
3.Headwinds – cost disease and services

5. 5
Services

6. 6
Advancing prosperity

7. 7
Occupational Licencing
•Economic reasons for (and against) licensing
•Licensing, competition and productivity
•Recent licensing reform in Australia
•The next challenges for licensing policy
•Is licensing the best way of improving safety?
•Boundary issues and scope of practice

8. 8
Recommendations
•Recommendation 7.7: Expanding the default recognition of international
licences
•Recommendation 7.8: Aligning migration and occupational license
requirements
•Recommendation 7.9: Address known issues in scope of practice
•Recommendation 7.10: Pursue trials into expanded scope of practice
•Recommendation 7.11: Improved process for regular review of licensing
policy
•Recommendation 7.12: Digital licensing designed to enable future data
sharing and analytics

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