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Are public sector workers different? : cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees

Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a representative sample of elderly workers from 12 European countries. We find that public sector workers, both those currently employed and those already retired, are significantly more...

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Führungspositionen im Ehrenamt : ein weiterer Bereich der Benachteiligung von Frauen?

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Saka, Belit; Steffentorweihen, Ina - 2015

Based on data of the 2009 German Volunteer Survey ("Freiwilligensurvey") the paper analyses whether there is evidence for a discrimination of women in filling management positions in the volunteer sector. It turns out that women have a significant lower propensity to take up an unpaid volunteer...

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How does public assistance use affect charitable activity? : a tale of two methods

Peck, Laura R.; Guo, Chao - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 44 (2015) 4, pp. 665-685

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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...

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Charitable behaviour and the big five personality traits : evidence from UK panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2015

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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Managing voluntary sport organizations to facilitate vulunteer recruitment

Østerlund, Karsten - In: European Sport management quarterly : ESMQ 13 (2013) 2, pp. 143-165

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Volunteering and income : the fallacy of the good samaritan?

Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2004

This paper explores individual motives for volunteering. The analysis is based on the interpretation of volunteering as … present an econometric framework taking into account self selection into volunteering and simultaneity between the … volunteering decision and the determination of income in order to test these two models and to identify the underlying motives. We …

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The price of warm glow

Lilley, Andrew; Slonim, Robert - 2013

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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Volunteering, subjective well-being and public policy

Binder, Martin; Freytag, Andreas - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 34 (2013), pp. 97-119

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Organizational commitment and involvement : explaining the decision to give to associations

Wang, Lili; Ashcraft, Robert F. - In: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 43 (2014), pp. 61-83

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