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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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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...
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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 … censored nature of the outcome variables, i.e. some individuals do not engage in charitable behaviour, we employ censored … traits across the entire distribution of charitable behaviour rather than just at the mean, which has generally been the case …
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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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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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