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Voluntary Associations and Trustworthiness: An Empirical Examination at Italian Regional Level

In: Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy. An International Perspective

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  • Giacomo Degli Antoni

    (Università di Milano Bicocca)

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This essay studies the level of trustworthiness across Italian regions in relation to three variables: membership in cultural and recreational associations; membership in ecological, civil rights and peace associations; unpaid participation in voluntary service associations (solidarity associations). Two main results emerge: a positive and significant effect of unpaid participation in solidarity associations on the regional level of trustworthiness, and a negative, if not always significant, effect of membership in environmental associations. Furthermore, it is unpaid labour of solidarity associations that crucially contributes to the creation of propitious conditions for the diffusion of trustworthy behaviour throughout the community.

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  • Giacomo Degli Antoni, 2009. "Voluntary Associations and Trustworthiness: An Empirical Examination at Italian Regional Level," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Marco Musella & Sergio Destefanis (ed.), Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy. An International Perspective, edition 1, chapter 11, pages 183-196, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:03-11
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    Cited by:

    1. Giuseppe Terzo, 2022. "Investigating the link between social cooperation sector and economic well‐being of Italian provinces through the lens of social capital," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 93(4), pages 1041-1062, December.
    2. Fabio Sabatini & Francesca Modena & Ermanno Tortia, 2014. "Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 42(3), pages 621-641, March.
    3. Giacomo Degli Antoni, 2014. "Do we need to worry if people bowl alone? Results from a field experiment with voluntary association members," Econometica Working Papers wp51, Econometica.

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    Keywords

    trust; nonprofit institutions; regional differences; unpaid work.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
    • L31 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship

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