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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 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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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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carry out a volunteering task. Participants in a volunteering task are given the option of selecting oneself or nominating …. Gender priming reduces designations and increases volunteering for all, but the treatment effect differs across genders … for the volunteering, though they display a preference for the happy woman, whilst women are both more sensitive to the …
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Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam Smith, helping others is the … its infrastructure of volunteering. People who accidentally lost their opportunities for volunteering are compared to …
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This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for OECD member countries. Empirically we identify three...
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Volunteer supply is widespread, yet without a price inefficiencies occur due to suppliers' inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. For these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
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. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job … volunteering premium is higher for females but invariant with respect to the number of engagements and the private versus public or …
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vacancies in Belgium. Ethnic origin and volunteer activities are randomly assigned to these applications. While non-volunteering … native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal …
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probability of volunteering and the level of interpersonal trust. However, all these results, except for the result on the …
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