Cooperative movement and widespread prosperity across Italian regions

Our goal is to participate in the debate on regional well‐being. To this end, we explore the relationship between prosperity and the cooperative movement at the regional level in Italy between 2010 and 2019. We summarize prosperity through an index originally proposed by Amartya Sen and we apply it...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of public and cooperative economics 2023-06, Vol.94 (2), p.475-494
Hauptverfasser: Costa, Michele, Delbono, Flavio, Linguiti, Francesco
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Our goal is to participate in the debate on regional well‐being. To this end, we explore the relationship between prosperity and the cooperative movement at the regional level in Italy between 2010 and 2019. We summarize prosperity through an index originally proposed by Amartya Sen and we apply it to classify Italian regions. We then perform panel analyses showing that there is a positive and significant association between such an index and the cooperative presence. We detect that, and explain why, the cooperative movement contributes to the regional prosperity more through its employment than in terms of the added value it generates.
ISSN:1370-4788
1467-8292
DOI:10.1111/apce.12387