Social Capital and Firm’s Productivity in Italy: a Multilevel Approach
Sebastiano Nerozzi,
Vito Pipitone and
Giorgio Ricchiuti
Working Papers - Economics from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa
Abstract:
Matching and merging different databases, we study how firm’s productivity is affected by individual characteristics and provincial context conditions in Italy. Mainly, we focus on the relation between social capital, in its different forms and dimensions and calculated at provincial level and firms’ productivity, calculated using the non-parametric DEA approach. We find that exporting, self-financing firms, and firms belonging to groups, are more productive. In particular, Cooperative firms are more productive than limited company. Moreover, the variables capturing the social capital show strong positive correlation with firms’ productivity, indicating that a widespread civism intended as pro-social behavior independent of specific interpersonal bounds, seems to create an economic environment which is more favorable to entrepreneurship and collaboration among firms, since it increases interpersonal trust, lowers transaction costs, enhances the compliance of formal or informal rules of fairness and fosters a more transparent, impartial and efficient working of the public administration.
Keywords: DEA; productivity; social capital; inequality; multilevel approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C19 D24 R10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2014
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