The Italian Social Cooperatives in 2008: A Portrait Using Descriptive and Principal Component Analysis

Chiara Carini, Ericka Costa, Maurizio Carpita and Michele Andreaus

No 1235, Euricse Working Papers from Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises)

Abstract: This paper describes the role of social cooperatives in Italy as a type of economic, nonprofit organization that is assuming an increasingly central role in the country, by contributing to its economic and social growth. In the last decade many agencies, institutions and research centres (Istat Italian National Statistic Office, Ministry of Economic Development, Confcooperative Legacoop, Unioncamere) have provided studies on the evolution of the cooperative movement in the Third Sector, in order to monitor the development of these organizations over time and to evaluate their economic and employment impact over the country. Following a similar path, this study analyzes the contribution of social cooperatives in Italy at a regional level, highlighting the differences related to their age and fields of activity. Moreover, the paper evaluates the efficiency and profitability of the social cooperative by conducting further analysis based on a number of economic and financial indexes.

Keywords: Social cooperatives; Italy; Regional development; Employment; Economic and financial indexes; Principal component analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 J21 L31 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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