This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of … perceived good health. …

This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in … Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of … perceived good health. …

interaction on health in Italy. After controlling for household income, education, work status and a number of socio …-perceived health. The frequency of visits with relatives has a significant, but weaker effect. Membership in voluntary organizations is … a significant and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work …

empirical study of the relationship between social interactions and health in Italy. Second, we add to previous studies by …The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this …

We test the relationship between happiness and self-rated health in Italy. The analysis relies on a unique dataset … modelling, we find that happiness is strongly correlated with perceived good health, after controlling for a number of relevant … socio-economic phenomena. Health inequalities based on income, work status and education are relatively contained in respect …

This paper investigates the determinants of job satisfaction in Italy with particular emphasis on social relations. Our …-perceived health. …

Using a rich cross-sectional dataset, we estimate the effect of meetings with friends on self-perceived health, chronic … correlated with self-perceived health, negatively associated with chronic conditions but not related to limitations in activities …

regional tourism along its three main dimensions: organisational, environmental and innovation-process specifics. Empirical …-sized tourist enterprises (MSMTEs). Innovation barriers are identified and explored within the framework of innovative chain of the …-governments, tourists, local communities). The main conclusion is that the organisational, environmental and innovation-process related …

According to the open innovation model an effective strategy for increasing innovation and competitiveness of the … region should be based on active and multilevel cooperation among operators of the local tourism business environment. It is … rather high level of inertia of local authorities in creating appropriate conditions for tourism business development, thus …

The design of new tourism products necessarily enters into the realm of uncertainty. Such uncertainty concerns the …