Italian manufacturing productivity, 1976-2016: sectoral reallocation versus firms’ heterogeneity

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Carlo Brambilla, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria; Fabio Lavista, Università di Pisa

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Brambilla, Carlo, and Lavista, Fabio. Italian manufacturing productivity, 1976-2016: sectoral reallocation versus firms’ heterogeneity. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-02-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/E217441V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Based on new datasets collecting financial statements and off-balance sheet data on a wide number of medium and large Italian enterprises between the 1970s and the 2010s, the work aims at contributing to the debate about the productivity growth gap that affected the Italian industry, as compared to other advanced economies, at the end of the last century. It also aims at understanding whether productivity gaps were mainly determined by differences among firms (within-effect) or by resources’ reallocation across industries (between-effect). What emerges from the long term analysis is a contraction of most productive sectors and a productivity slowdown affecting almost all industries. In the long run, the reallocation of resources across sectors has had a negative impact on productivity trends, preceding and somehow offsetting any positive contributions from the within-effect.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Structural change; Industrial organization; Italian economic history 1945-
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Italy
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1976 – 2016
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2020 – 2024
Universe:  View help for Universe Italian companies
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; aggregate data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source
Mediobanca, Le principali società italiane, ad annos
OECD Productivity Database, April 2024 ed.
OECD STAN Database, 2020 ed.
Eurostat, Labour productivity and unit labour costs at industry level dataset
ISTAT, Industrial Censuses, ad annos
EU Klems



Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) other
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Industrial sector, year
Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit Country

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