Measuring Social Capital: Evidence from Italy

Local Economies and Internationalization in Italy Conference, p. 159, 2003

28 Pages Posted: 12 Oct 2012

Date Written: November 20, 2003

Abstract

This paper aims at three main goals: a) choosing proxies of social capital available at territorial level; b) defining the current geography of social capital endowment; c) correlating our synthetic measure of social capital with economic phenomena (e.g. industrial districts distribution). According to this analysis, the simple dualism between Northern and Southern Italy does not allow an exhaustive map of social capital geography in Italy. The so-called “Third Italy” regions – North-East and Tuscany especially – where the incidence of industrial districts is remarkable, are widely endowed with social capital, and, precisely, with the “macro” component of social capital, whose accumulation involves many people, favouring trust.

Suggested Citation

Micucci, Giacinto and Nuzzo, Giorgio, Measuring Social Capital: Evidence from Italy (November 20, 2003). Local Economies and Internationalization in Italy Conference, p. 159, 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2160456 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2160456

Giacinto Micucci (Contact Author)

Bank of Italy ( email )

Via Nazionale 91
Rome, 00184
Italy

Giorgio Nuzzo

Bank of Italy ( email )

Via Nazionale 91
Rome, 00184
Italy

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