The spatial dimension of productivity in Italian co-operatives

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No 2021/02, OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This report explores the spatial dimension of productivity in the co-operatives of Italy, a country where they make up a relatively large share of total national employment. Co-operatives play a countercyclical role in job creation during crises. In a post-pandemic world, they could make a major contribution to steering the economy towards inclusiveness and sustainability. Productivity growth ensures that co-operatives can achieve both economic and social goals in the future. This report applies a place-based approach to investigate the issue of productivity in co-operatives, given their many interdependencies with local communities. Novel evidence points to the local factors that are linked with the concentration and productivity of co-operatives across regions, sectors and firm size classes in Italy. A comparison with other Italian firms as well as with Spanish co-operatives and other Spanish firms serves to illustrate how productivity performance varies across space and firm types. This report constitutes an empirical test for the analytical approach developed by the OECD Spatial Productivity Lab.

Keywords: cooperatives; Italy; productivity; regional economics; social economy; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 E24 J54 L31 O32 O35 P13 Q13 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-03-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eff, nep-eur, nep-hme, nep-lab, nep-mac, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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