Search Results - subject:"Volunteer activities"

Giving time or giving money? On the relationship between charitable contributions

Dittrich, Marcus; Mey, Bianka - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 85 (2021), pp. 1-16

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Gender differences in volunteer activities: Evidence from German survey data

Dittrich, Marcus; Mey, Bianka - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 349-360

for charitable organisations. Our findings suggest that men are more likely than women to engage in regular volunteer … activities. Additionally, we find that men devote more time to charitable causes than women. However, disaggregating the …

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Natural disasters and social capital formation: The impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - 2013

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake struck Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of south-central Japan. The earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a large, individual-level database comprising 488,223...

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Natural disasters and social capital formation : the impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527094

Natural disasters and social capital formation: The impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The Great Hanshin-Awaji (Kobe) earthquake hit Japan in 1995, causing devastating damage to the economic landscape of southern-central Japan. However, the earthquake also caused people to realize the importance of social capital in Japan. Based on a large, individual-level database comprising...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259151

Natural disasters and social capital formation: The impact of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake

Yamamura, Eiji - Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI) - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693078

Natural disasters and participation in volunteer activities: A case study of the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake.

Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

and the extent to which the earthquake increased the participation of students and house-workers in volunteer activities … obtained: (1) the probability of students’ participating in volunteer activities was 2% higher after the earthquake than before …, and (2) the number of days that students spent participating in volunteer activities was 4.38 days longer after the …

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The Perception of the Dynamics of Associative Life in Romania: A Qualitative Study

TEODORESCU, Cristina - In: Anuarul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi / … (2011) 7, pp. 73-83

International surveys have emphasized a series of reasons why citizens decide to become involved in social activities, e.g. the desire for personal development or the acquirement of positive social identity. In addition, civic engagement can be considered as a means of meeting certain...

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Youth volunteering in countries in the European Union : approximation to differences

Gil-Lacruz, Ana Isabel; Marcuello, Carmen; Saz-Gil, … - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 45 (2016) 5, pp. 971-991

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Labour Outcomes of Graduates and Dropouts of High School and Post-secondary Education: Evidence for Canadian 24- to 26-year-olds in 2005

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

The purpose of this research is to estimate the impact of education, with a particular focus on education levels lower than a university diploma, on the labour market and social outcomes of the 24- to 26-year-old Canadians found in the fourth wave of the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS),...

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