Author Biographies
Laura Nirello
is postdoctoral researcher at Centre Lillois d’Etudes et de Recherches Sociologiques et Economiques—CLERSE (Lille Sociological and Economic Studies and Research Centre) and at the Direction de la Recherche, des Etudes, de l’Evaluation et des Statistiques—DREES (Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation, and Statistics), a department of the French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
After studying political science at the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Lille (Lille Political Science Institute), she defended a Ph.D. in economics and management in December 2015 at Nantes University. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “The problematic construction of employment relationship in the social economy. Nursing homes: between public regulations and enterprise regulations.”
Her research deals with job quality in the social and the solidarity economy and regulations in the care home sector. She has published several articles about the impact of public regulations in the care home sector, especially concerning NPOs. Her postdoctoral work focuses on two subjects: social protection for the workers in the sharing economy and projections of demand for long-term care for older people.
Lionel Prouteau
is Emeritus Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nantes. He is member of the Nantes-Atlantique Economics and Management Research Laboratory (Laboratoire d’économie et de management de Nantes-Atlantique—LEMNA). After teaching social sciences in a high school for several years, in 1997 he defended a thesis entitled “The economics of voluntary behavior: Theoretical and empirical analysis.” Then he became Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Nantes. In 2004, he was elected director of the Institute for General Administration Preparation (Institut de préparation à l’Administration Générale—IPAG) of Nantes. He held this post until 2009.
His research deals with the social and solidarity economy and more particularly, the nonprofit sector. In this framework, he pays particular attention to volunteering and paid staff. On these subjects he has authored and co-authored several books or book chapters, as well as several articles which have been published in both international reviews and French journals. In particular, he has contributed to the publication of a special issue of Public Administration and Development entitled “Government—nonprofit relations in comparative perspective” (Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2002), which was selected as the first-place winner of the 2002 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize.