Occupational Licences

Occupational licenses are state regulations that set requirements for individuals to practice a specific trade or profession. These requirements may include formal education or training, work experience, passing exams, and payment of fees, among others.

The following report presents the results of research and analysis aimed at characterizing how the licensing requirements of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico compared to those in the United States.

The following report presents the results of research and analysis aimed at characterizing how the licensing requirements of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico compare to those in the United States. This work builds on the report titled Review of PR’s occupations under the scope of the US Institute for Justice License to Work National Study

This report was developed under an agreement between the University of Puerto Rico and Puerto Rico’s State Department (Departamento de Estado; DE). The agreement is aligned with the Ease of Doing Business division of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico and the approved Fiscal Plan of the Government of Puerto Rico.

The following report presents the results of research conducted over a 13-week period to characterize the licensing requirements of 90 licenses in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. This report considers the occupations pursued by the general community. The reason a few occupations with licensing requirements were not included was their rarity among the general public,

The following report presents the results of research conducted over a 9-week period to characterize the licensing requirements of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for a set of occupations as defined by the second edition of the report License to Work. The LTW was published by the Institute for Justice (www.ij.org) in 2017. The LTW