The influence of BES territorial indicators on economic performance of manufacturing firms

Abstract

The research aims to verify whether some BES territorial indicators influence the Italian regional labour productivity in the manufacturing sector. The quantile regression approach allows us to highlight that labour productivity is heterogeneous that the relationship between labour productivity and environmental and firm’s characteristics is not constant across quantiles. Our results show that labour productivity is affected by negative externalities such as the homicide rate and minimum economics conditions and that these indicators have a greater influence in regions with lower labour productivity.