Does it pay to care? Volunteering and employment opportunities

被引：32

作者：

Baert, Stijn ^{[1
,2
,3
,4
,5
]}

Vujic, Suncica ^{[6
,7
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Ghent, Sint Pieterspl 6, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[2] Univ Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

[3] Catholic Univ Louvain, Louvain, Belgium

[4] GLO, Antwerp, Belgium

[5] IZA, Antwerp, Belgium

[6] Univ Antwerp, Prinsstr 13, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium

[7] Univ Bath, Bath, Avon, England

来源：

JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS | 2018年 / 31卷 / 03期

关键词：

Volunteering; Labour market; Statistical discrimination; Experiments; PRO-SOCIAL PREFERENCES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; JOB-PERFORMANCE; SELF-SELECTION; LABOR; DISCRIMINATION; PERSONALITY; AGE; UNEMPLOYMENT; DIRECTIONS;

D O I：

10.1007/s00148-017-0682-8

中图分类号：

C921 [人口统计学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

We investigate whether volunteering has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies in Belgium. We find that volunteers are 7.3 percentage points more likely to get a positive reaction to their job applications. The volunteering premium is higher for females but invariant with respect to the number of engagements.

引用

页码：819 / 836

页数：18

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