Abstract This paper carries out an investigation into the socio-economic determinants of couples’ childbearing decisions in Italy. Since having children is in most cases a “couple […]
Abstract Microfinance institutions are used to claim that their impact goes beyond money since rescuing from exclusion uncollateralized poor borrowers significantly affects their dignity, self-esteem, social […]
Abstract In Italy social enterprises include more than 7,000 institutions with around 250,000 workers serving more than three million people, a big share of which disadvantaged. […]
Abstract Creditworthiness and trustworthiness are almost synonyms since the act of conferring a loan has the indirect effect of signaling the trustworthiness of the borrower. We […]
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 […]
Abstract Empirical analyses on the determinants of life satisfaction often include the impact of the number of children variable among available controls without fully discriminating between […]
Abstract We devise a retrospective panel data approach to evaluate the effects of fair trade affiliation on the schooling decisions of a sample of Thai organic […]
Introduzione Veniamo da un’epoca storica, quella della rivoluzione industriale, che ha generato un progresso senza precedenti in termini di benessere economico e di indicatori sociali se […]
Introduzione In questo lavoro metto a fuoco il tema dell’impresa sociale intesa come un’organizzazione che accresce le capacità dei cittadini e che genera beni relazionali […]