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Knocking on parents’ doors: regulation and intergenerational mobility

Sauro Mocetti, Giacomo Roma and Enrico Rubolino
Published online before print February 11, 2020, 0219-10074R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.2.0219-10074R2
Sauro Mocetti
†Bank of Italy, Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research. Via Nazionale 91, 00184 Roma (Italy). Email:
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Giacomo Roma
‡Bank of Italy, Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research. Via Nazionale 91, 00184 Roma (Italy). Email:
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Enrico Rubolino
§Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex, CO4 3SQ UK. Email:
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Abstract

This paper studies the effect of regulation on intergenerational mobility. Focusing on the case of Italy since the early 2000s, we exploit the impact of two major reforms in the regulation of professional services. We built an OECD-style indicator of strictness of regulation for 14 occupations and three different cohorts (i.e., before and after each reform) to leverage the differential effect of regulation among occupations and over time. We find that the progressive liberalization of professional services has affected the propensity to follow the parents’ career, which is our proxy for intergenerational occupational persistence. The impact is driven by a relaxation of anti-competitive conduct rules rather than variation in entry requirements. Regulation distorts the career choices significantly more in social sciences, in provinces with higher rents for professionals and, at individual level, among less able children.

Keywords
  • regulation
  • intergenerational mobility
  • occupational choice
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  • J44
  • J24

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Sauro Mocetti, Giacomo Roma, Enrico Rubolino
Journal of Human Resources Feb 2020, 0219-10074R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.2.0219-10074R2

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Knocking on parents’ doors: regulation and intergenerational mobility
Sauro Mocetti, Giacomo Roma, Enrico Rubolino
Journal of Human Resources Feb 2020, 0219-10074R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.2.0219-10074R2
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