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Volunteering and the State [PDF]

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 ...
Hackl, Franz, Halla, Martin, Pruckner, Gerald J.   +2 more
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Becoming Active Agents Through Practices of Volunteering: Immigrants’ Experiences in Rural Germany

Social Inclusion
Volunteering is an important way to include immigrants at a local scale, especially in small towns and municipalities with limited arrival infrastructure.
Tobias Weidinger, David Spenger, Stefan Kordel   +2 more
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"Volunteer" Searches

University of Pittsburgh Law Review, 2023
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Volunteering and the Strategic Value of Ignorance [PDF]

Private provision of public goods often takes place as a war of attrition: individuals wait until someone else volunteers and provides the good. After a certain time period, however, one individual may be randomly selected.
Florian Morath
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The Effects of Volunteering for Non-profit Organizations on Social Capital Formation: Evidence from a Statewide Survey [PDF]

We use the household production framework to theoretically connect sociability and purposive incentives for volunteering and two forms of social capital: social connections and civic capacity.
Garret Kimberly, Jane Kolodinsky, Jonathan Isham   +2 more
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National volunteering strategy : Australia volunteers, inspiring the volunteer in you [PDF]

, 2011
32 p. : col. ill., port. ; 30 cm.Libro ElectrónicoMinister’s foreword 1 Overview 4 Summary of Actions 6 Volunteering in Australia 8 Focus area 1: Respond to trends in volunteering 12 Engaging young people 12 Engaging older Australians ...

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Doing Well by Doing Good Benefits for the Benefactor

, 2018
This study seeks to examine if volunteering affects mental and physical health and examine if health behaviors or social participation affect the association between volunteering and perceived mental and physical health. Method and Data: Using a logistic
Khilnani, Aneka
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Volunteering in the Community: Potential Benefits for Cognitive Aging

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2018
H. Guiney, L. Machado
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Canadian Volunteers [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2003
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Longitudinal Associations Between Formal Volunteering and Cognitive Functioning

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2018
C. Proulx, A. Curl, A. Ermer
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