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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
life than non-volunteers. Causality is addressed taking advantage of a natural experiment: the collapse of East Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261810
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
van Ours, Jan C.; van Tuijl, Martin A. - 2010
important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in full 'A' international matches of six … national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276911
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Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S.
Eibich, Peter; Lorenti, Angelo; Mosca, Irene - 2020
Voluntary work is an important contribution for many non-profit organizations, such as charities, political and religious organizations. Older individuals make up a sizable share of the volunteer workforce, and volunteering is often regarded as an example of "active ageing". In this study, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207834
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Retirement and Voluntary Work Provision: Evidence from the Australian Age Pension Reform
Zhu, Rong - 2021
This paper examines the empirical link between retirement and the supply of volunteer labor, using panel data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. To identify the causal impact, we exploit a major reform of the Australian Age Pension which has significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658227
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Why volunteer? Evidence on the role of altruism, reputation, and incentives
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2007
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why people engage in such prosocial acts. The list of possible motivations is long, but recent research has focused on altruism, reputational concerns, and material...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268518
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Volunteering and the state
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269121
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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment
Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bureaucrat, who supplies some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274068
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Time vs. money: The supply of voluntary labor and charitable donations across Europe
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bredtmann, Julia; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2012
Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that volunteering is a consumption good, we analyze the determinants of individuals' charitable cash donations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284012
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Commitment to self-rewards
Koch, Alexander K.; Nafziger, Julia - 2009
Self-administered rewards are ubiquitous. They serve as incentives for personal accomplishments and are widely recommended as tools for overcoming self-control problems. However, it seems puzzling why self-rewards can work: the prospect of a reward has a motivating force only if the threat of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271233
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Extrinsic rewards and intrinsic motives: Standard and behavioral approaches to agency and labor markets
Rebitzer, James B.; Taylor, Lowell J. - 2010
agency in employment relationships relies on highly stylized assumptions regarding human motivation, e.g., that employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272684