The paper aims to analyse the role covered by “Mutual Benefit Societies” (hereinafter MBSs – it. trans. “Mutue Sanitarie Integrative”) in terms of “social innovation” within the on-going changing of Italian welfare system. In fact, several of these organisations survived the last...

Il presente lavoro analizza le determinanti della attivita' gratuita per una associazione di volontariato, una associazione non di volontariato, un partito politico ed un sindacato, usando dati ufficiali dell'Indagine Multiscopo sulla Famiglia, Aspetti della vita quotidiana, dell'Istituto...

In this paper we outline a model of horizontal product differentiation where two duopolists a profit maximising producer (PMP) and a socially responsible fair trader (FT) producer compete over prices and (costly) socially and environmentally responsible features of their products. We analyse the...

Poor local information networks and weak social sanctions in urban settings make joint liability unable to guarantee high repayment rates to microlenders. Yet, microcredit programmes in Western Europe report good performance even if the majority of them charge no collateral. We collect data from...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...