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Empirical evidence documents that other regarding activities (voluntary/charity work, helping friends/neighbours) done with other regarding motivations contribute positively and signi cantly to subjective wellbeing. The question is why only a re- stricted group of people performs these...
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There may be a nexus between card games and financial markets. Akerlof and Shiller (2010) wonder whether the decline in the number of bridge players and the growth in the number of poker players may have led to the current bad financial traders’practices which are responsible for the global...
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We provide non experimental evidence of the relevance of sociability on subjective wellbeing by investigating the determinants of life satisfaction on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50. We document that voluntary work, religious attendance, helping friends/neighbours and participation to...
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This paper addresses two hot topics of the contemporary debate, social capital and economic growth. Our theoretical analysis sheds light on decisive but so far neglected issues: how does social capital accumulate over time? Which is the relationship between social capital, technical progress and...
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Chi rappresenta il nonprofit in Italia? Chi si sente rappresentato e da chi? Come le centinaia di migliaia di aziende nonprofit, e tutti coloro che a vario titolo vi lavorano (sia in forma volontaria che retribuita), vengono rappresentati? Come fare a rappresentare i molteplici e a volte anche...
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In numerosi paesi dell'Unione Europea, in questi ultimi anni, si assiste ad un processo di ridisegno (riforma) dei sistemi di welfare improntato da linee politiche che incentivano il passaggio da sistemi di finanziamento orientati al sostegno dell'offerta (gare di appalto, convenzionamento,...
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La selezione del personale e' un processo molto delicato in ogni organizzazione. Nelle Organizzazioni a Movente Ideale (OMI), che sono realta' nate attorno ad una ben chiara mission o "vocazione", saper attrarre le persone giuste e' decisivo per la crescita nel tempo. Il presente scritto va...
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We present a wide collection of experiments which show how human behavior deviates substantially with respect to the predictions derived from standard homo economicus assumptions. Then we review the theoretical literature that this evidence has stimulated. In particular some models are found to...
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The standard specification of utility functions in economic models usually neglects the effect of sociability on happiness. Our level and first difference panel estimates show that relational goods have significant and positive effects on self declared life satisfaction, net of the impact of...
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Il concetto di capitale sociale si e affermato, in ambito sociologico, a partire dalla fine degli anni ottanta grazie ai contributi di Pierre Bourdieu (1986) e James Coleman (1988, 1990). Nel corso degli anni novanta, la letteratura sul tema si quindi rapidamente ampliata, e la nozione di...
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