La comparaison des secteurs non lucratifs américain et français commence par un état des lieux en 1995. Les données empiriques strictement comparables sont interprétées par les ideal-types libéral anglo-saxon et partenarial européen de bien-être. Dans un deuxième temps, on analyse...

After a brief historical background of social economy in France, the paper recalls the origin of the project of a social economy satelleite account. It shows that cooperatives, mutual societies, associations and foundations are invisible in the central framework of national accounts. In a second...

La première partie de cet article précise les concepts qui prévalent dans le champ de l'économie sociale et leurs diverses acceptions selon les pays avant de montrer l'apport du Manuel de l'ONU sur les institutions sans but lucratif(ISBL). La seconde partie, à partir de l'apport du compte...

In December 2008, ILO recommended to add to the Labour Force Survey a brief questionnaire to measure volunteer work. The paper analyses firstly the methodological weaknesses of the existing surveys, in France and some Anglo-saxon countries to show that a standardisation is necessary. Then it...

After a brief overview of the historical background, the main object of this chapter is to analyse the type of relationship that have been developed between the government, at its different levels, and the non-profit organisations, in the recent years, and the consequences of these new...

Volunteering is considered first as a gift of time but the world of the gift does not generally fit into the framework of the economic calculation. Yet, volunteer work represents an important productive resource which is taken into account by voluntary associations and nonprofit institutions....

This article summarises the main results of the Johns Hopkins Nonprofit Sector Comparative Project, phase 2, for the 9 European countries included in the project. Then it contrasts the European and the US patterns. Finally the European pattern is splitted into four variations: corporatist,...

This paper intends to show that a European pattern of social economy exists, contrasting with the US nonprofit sector. This European pattern could be declined in five variations linked to the welfare state regimes and to the social origins of the countries. In the first part dealing with the...

Recently the measurement of Social economy has dramatically improved in France despite its invisibility in National accounts. The knowledge of its larger part, the nonprofit organisations, depends on the surveys run at Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne, a unique data base while cross-country...

After having stated some definitions and specified the legal and tax status of nonprofit organizations in France and the USA, this paper begins by comparing the scope of the American and the French third sectors, their structure and resources, using data from the Johns Hopkins Comparative...