کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
970561 1479576 2006 24 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Economic analysis of volunteers’ motivations—A cross-country study
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Economic analysis of volunteers’ motivations—A cross-country study
چکیده انگلیسی

While some core theories on volunteer labor supply decisions can be found in the economic literature, little efforts were made so far to operationalize these models and verify their implications in an empirical context. This paper aims at narrowing the research gap between the theoretical economic literature on volunteer motivations and the empirically observed motivations for volunteer labor supply. A common indicator ‘voluntary contributions by others’ linking the theories of public goods, private consumption and investment has been identified and examined on the basis of structural equation modeling and regression analysis. Using representative micro data collected for volunteers in Bangladesh, Ghana, Poland and South Korea, the paper finds that this indicator significantly influences an individual's motivation. Particularly, observed findings are in accordance with theoretical predictions.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The Journal of Socio-Economics - Volume 35, Issue 3, June 2006, Pages 532–555
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