> I mean different types of regulations many of which do not even exist in the US/UK but only in the EU. Occupational licensing is actually more prevalent in t

> I mean different types of regulations many of which do not even exist in the US/UK but only in the EU. Occupational licensing is actually more prevalent in the US than in EU. > This regulatory practice is known as “occupational licensing,” and it has spread to cover around 30 percent of the U.S. workforce, up from just 5 percent in the 1950s. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/01/26-time-to-examine-occupational-licensing-practices-kearney-hershbein-boddy http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/01/26-tim... There is an explicit comparison made in the full report: > Occupational licensing is not unique to the United States. Based on information gathered in 2012 from the then twentyseven nations in the European Union (EU), between 9 and 24 percent of European workers are subject to occupational licensing, which translates to between 19 million and 51 million individuals. These estimates of the share of the workforce that is licensed, even at the higher end, are still lower than the estimated share in the United States, which is slightly under 30 percent (Koumenta et al. 2014). > Similar to U.S. states, the extent of occupational licensing varies widely across countries in the EU: Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, and Sweden all have less than 15 percent of their workers covered by occupational licensing (Koumenta et al. 2014). Regulation is much more prevalent in other countries, however: at least 25 percent of the workforce in Denmark and Germany, for example, is regulated, and rates are also high in Italy and Spain. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2015/03/11-hamilton-project-expanding-jobs/thp_kleinerdiscpaper_final.pdf http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2015/...