This work provides a descriptive assessment of regulated occupations in Italy and examines the impact of regulation on the labour market over the past fifteen years. First, we construct, on the basis of the applicable legal provisions, a set of novel indicators measuring whether and to what extent each occupation is regulated. We then provide a long-run descriptive assessment of the extent of regulated occupations, showing that the share of workers involved has steadily increased over time reaching about one fourth in 2018 (more than one half among workers with a college degree). Finally, we show that these occupations are characterised by lower mobility and by a significant wage premium (particularly for the most highly regulated ones).

这项工作提供了对意大利受管制职业的描述性评估，并研究了过去十五年来管制对劳动力市场的影响。首先，我们在适用的法律规定的基础上，构建了一套新颖的指标，用于衡量是否对每个职业进行监管以及在何种程度上进行监管。然后，我们对受规管的职业范围进行了长期的描述性评估，表明随着时间的推移，所涉工人的比例稳步增长，达到2018年的约四分之一（拥有大学学历的工人中有一半以上）。最后，我们证明了这些职业的特点是流动性低，工资溢价大（尤其是对管理最严格的职业而言）。