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

Giacomo Degli Antoni ()

Chapter 11 in Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy. An International Perspective, 2009, pp 183-196 from AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: trust; nonprofit institutions; regional differences; unpaid work. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 L31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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