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doi:10.22028/D291-23450
Title: | Public goods, private consumption, and human-capital formation: on the economics of volunteer labour supply |
Author(s): | Emrich, Eike Pierdzioch, Christian |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
SWD key words: | Ehrenamt Deutsches Rotes Kreuz |
Free key words: | Volunteer labour supply Boosted regression trees German Red Cross |
DDC notations: | 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | Economists use three types of models to describe volunteer labour supply: the publicgoods model, the private-consumption model, and the human-capital model. We used data from an online survey questionnaire of volunteers working for the German Red Cross to study the extent to which each type helps to explain volunteer labour supply. To this end, we empirically studied various correlates of volunteer labour supply, including the components of utility that agents receive from volunteering. We used boosted regression trees to trace out the main correlates of volunteer labour supply, to study the relative contributions of the utility components, and potential interaction effects betwen the utility components and other correlates. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-68208 hdl:20.500.11880/23506 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-23450 |
Series name: | Diskussionspapiere des Europäischen Instituts für Sozioökonomie e.V. = Working papers of the European Institute for Socioeconomics |
Series volume: | 14 |
Date of registration: | 10-Apr-2017 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Sportwissenschaft |
Former Department: | bis SS 2016: SWI - Sportwissenschaftliches Institut |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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