This paper investigates the relationship between the social capital and economic resilience of Italian provinces during the Great Recession. It focuses on social economy organizations' internal and external relational dimensions to proxy forms of bonding and bridging social capital. Through an econometric analysis, I find that indicators depicting the diffusion of volunteering and cooperative employment are positively related to a measure of resilience, confirming the hypothesis that social capital can shape local reactions to crises. I also find a negative relationship between the local resilience and social cooperatives' density, highlighting how the latter indicator does not seize virtuous forms of social capital.

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意大利各省的社会资本、社会经济和经济韧性

本文研究了大衰退期间意大利各省的社会资本与经济弹性之间的关系。它侧重于社会经济组织的内部和外部关系维度，以连接和桥接社会资本的代理形式。通过计量经济学分析，我发现描述志愿服务和合作就业扩散的指标与韧性的衡量指标呈正相关，证实了社会资本可以影响当地对危机的反应的假设。我还发现地方复原力和社会合作社密度之间存在负相关关系，突出了后一个指标如何没有抓住社会资本的良性形式。