Working for nothing: The supply of volunteer labor
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Freeman, RB
署名单位：
National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
ISSN/ISSBN：
0734-306X
DOI：
10.1086/209859
发表日期：
1997
页码：
S140-S166
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摘要：
Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This article shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the United States, that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time, that standard labor supply explanations of volunteering account for only a minor part of volunteer behavior, and that many volunteer only when requested to do so. This suggests that volunteering is a ''conscience good or activity''-something that people feel morally obligated to do when asked, but which they would just as soon let someone else do.
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