Italian cooperatives: an analysis of their economic performances, employment characteristics and innovation processes based on combined used of official data

Carlo Borzaga, Manlio Calzaroni, Chiara Carini () and Massimo Lori
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Manlio Calzaroni: Expert in Statistics, former Director of the Central Directorate for economic censuses and statistical registers at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Italy
Chiara Carini: Euricse
Massimo Lori: Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Italy

No 1906, CIRIEC Working Papers from CIRIEC - Université de Liège

Abstract: Researchers and policymakers have identified the need to accurately and quantitatively evaluate cooperatives and their economic, social and employment effects, as well as their evolution over time, in a way that is as reliable as possible and not subject to interpretation. This need was also manifested in the adoption by the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians of the Guidelines Concerning Statistics of Cooperatives, which aim to facilitate the development of a set of statistics on cooperatives that can be compared at the international level. This study provides informative insights and analyses based on a unified statistical representation of the structure, economic performance and profiles of cooperatives—including cooperative groups— within the Italian economy. Through the integration of several official statistical data sources released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics with the Cooperative Register managed by the Ministry of Economic Development, on the one hand, the paper highlights the peculiarities of cooperatives compared to other companies; on the other hand, it analyses in depth the composition of the cooperative sector with respect to both economic and structural variables.

Keywords: Italy; Cooperatives; Statistics; Economic and employment size; Innovation and digitalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 J21 J54 P13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06
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