Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
15 June 2012
Pubblicato il 15 June 2012
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Abstract Worker-managed firms (WMFs) represent a marginal proportion of total firms and aggregate employment in most countries. The bulk of firms in real economies is ultimately […]
13 June 2012
Pubblicato il 13 June 2012
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Abstract This paper studies intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities from parents to children. We create a measure of parental cognitive evolu- tion across time, which combines […]
27 January 2011
Pubblicato il 27 January 2011
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In this paper, we provide a very simple model to shed light on the issue of managed competition in mixed quasi-markets (i.e. regulated markets in which […]
20 May 2010
Pubblicato il 20 May 2010
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Abstract: One of the aspects least focused upon in studies of Social Enterprises is governance, which is crucial when defining a type of governing system that […]
19 May 2010
Pubblicato il 19 May 2010
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Abstract This paper analyses the relationship between workers’ gender and monetary incentives in an experimental setting based on a double-tournament scheme. The participants must choose between […]
20 October 2009
Pubblicato il 20 October 2009
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Abstract Using a longitudinal data set of balance sheets of 504 nonprofit and for-profit firms operating in the social residential sector in Italy, we investigate the […]
19 October 2009
Pubblicato il 19 October 2009
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Abstract We develop a dynamic model to analyze the sources and the evolution of social participation and social capital in a growing economy characterized by exogenous […]
14 October 2009
Pubblicato il 14 October 2009
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Abstract In our empirical analysis of wage differentials in a sample of workers in the cooperative not for profit sector we find that, consistently with the […]
18 January 2009
Pubblicato il 18 January 2009
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Abstract Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical investigation into the causal relationships connecting four types […]
20 May 2005
Pubblicato il 20 May 2005
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Abstract The main idea behind this paper is that social capital is not, as generally suggested by the socio-economic literature, an individual attitude towards something which […]