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from the Netherlands on volunteering and sector of employment. We find support for most of our predictions. …
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This paper investigates the association between personality traits and charitable behaviour, namely donations of time and money, using data from Understanding Society, the most recent large scale UK household longitudinal survey. Due to the censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some...
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Donations and unpaid working are two important forms of non-market activities that are usually considered separately in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test hypotheses on determinants of giving to organizations. In particular, the importance of voluntary work for...
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their public service motivation, as measured by their propensity to volunteer, using a representative sample of elderly …
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The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship between the importance individuals attach to labor-market activities - which is influenced by the...
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NGOs and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group identities affect trust and trustworthiness within the groups and toward out-groups. We find that...
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increases donated labor. -- Donated labor ; intrinsic motivation ; non-profit organizations ; power within organizations …
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)fairness of 'mandatory volunteering'. This small exploratory study aims to reveal the perceptions of female participants in … mandatory volunteering programmes and to formulate directions for further research. We analyse how in Rotterdam the transition … were already volunteering. Surprisingly, they claim that the new approach better recognises their contribution to 'society …
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This paper presents a model and experimental evidence to explain the "volunteering puzzle" where agents prefer … volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient …
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of OLS and IV estimates also indicates negative selection into volunteering for both genders. In a model of optimal … volunteering, negative selection implies that a reduction in the cost of volunteering will lead to an expanded and higher …
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