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We study the relationship between workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace. We predict that there is substitutability between workers' contribution to other peoples' well-being by exerting effort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We...
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: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts … donations to charity. Comparing equally altruistic workers, those with a regular job make higher donations to charity than those …-sectional data from Germany on self-reported altruism, sector of employment, and donations to charity. In addition, we use panel data …
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Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...
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volunteering time to donating money when monetary donations are, ceteris paribus, more efficient for providing resources to charity … donations. We also primed between-subjects the emphasis on the donation value to the charity (pure altruism) or the sacrifice to …
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addition, the aim is to find out whether mutual dependencies exist and to what extent benefits, measured by satisfaction, can … organizations and voluntary work show mutual dependencies. - Life satisfaction is increased both by donating and by doing voluntary …
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their public service motivation, as measured by their propensity to volunteer, using a representative sample of elderly … there is evidence of some differences in risk aversion, political preferences, life and job satisfaction. …
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We investigate whether public and private sector employees differ in terms of public service motivation using a … risk aversion, political preferences, life and job satisfaction. …
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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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Volunteer supply is widespread. Yet without a price, inefficiencies occur due to suppliers’ inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. In these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically provided. The mechanism, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035105
The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC), we estimate models in which a measure of subjective...
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