La France et l'Allemagne relèvent de traditions historiques, religieuses, administratives et politiques distinctes. Selon la théorie institutionnaliste des social origins(Salamon&Anheier), leurs secteurs non lucratif devraient également être très différents. Ils ont pourtant largement...

Après avoir cerné les causes qui expliquent l'invisibilité statistique des organisations de l'économie sociale et solidaire (OESS), et privilégié les conventions des comptes nationaux, (section 1) ce chapitre analyse les progrès réalisés depuis les 20 dernières années, en insistant...

Formant un modèle régional diversifié, les institutions sans but lucratif en Europe sont fragilisées par la crise économique et l'évolution libérale de la politique communautaire. Appauvries, transformées en sous-traitantes des programmes européens, leur innovation bridée, elles...

France and Germany rely on different historic, religious, administrative and political traditions. In spite of these fundamental differences which should structure the non profit sector of every country, according to the theory of social origins (Salamon1998), the German and French thirdsectors...

The European Union in its widening movement shows five clusters of Third sector organisations with complex bonds and ties with the surrounding societies and national identities In introduction, we compare briefly the Europe's Third sector features to North America's ones (Historical and...

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...

Major trends (1995-2005) in the French Nonprofit sectors are the following: An increased awareness of the importance , an increased support of central and local governments and more professionalized organizations and more anti-establishment new voluntary organizations. Three major issues :...

The first satellite account of nonprofit institutions, following the UN Manual of NPIs in the SNA, was issued at INSEE, the French statistical office, in 2005. This article outlines firstly the methodology and then shows the main results of this satellite account. It also adds data on voluntary...

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...