The Changing Effects of Community Characteristics on Volunteering in Canada
This paper examines the effects of community characteristics on volunteering using data from two cycles of the Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating (2004 and 2007). Controlling for many individual factors, we find evidence that in 2004, volunteering was decreasing in population, income inequality, and shares of foreign-born residents. For 2007, there is no evidence that any of the community characteristics had significant effects, suggesting that Canada's large communities were coping increasingly well with rising income inequality and birthplace diversity.
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2012
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Authors: | Smith, Alexander |
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Canadian Public Policy. - University of Toronto Press. - Vol. 38.2012, 3, p. 361-373
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University of Toronto Press |
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