Download This PaperTrucker Shortage as Government Failure
17 Pages Posted: 19 Mar 2016 Last revised: 6 Dec 2022
Date Written: March 17, 2016
Abstract
The United States is experiencing a shortage of large-truck drivers. Such a shortage might normally be attributed to a failure in the market for driver services. Instead, this article argues that the trucker shortage is an example of government failure, wherein government regulations fail to achieve any gains and, instead, worsen existing problems in the regulated industry.
Keywords: public choice, government failure, market failure, regulation
JEL Classification: D21, D40, D50, D73, D78, K23, L51
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Kidd, Jeremy and Padgett, Joseph, Trucker Shortage as Government Failure (March 17, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2749109 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2749109
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