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doi:10.22028/D291-27038
Title: | For the love of football? Using economic models of volunteering to study the motives of German football referees |
Author(s): | Emrich, Eike Pierdzioch, Christian Rullang, Christian |
Editor(s): | Emrich, Eike Pierdzioch, Christian Klein, Markus |
Language: | English |
Pages: | 35 |
Publisher/Platform: | Europäisches Institut für Sozioökonomie e.V. |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Place of publication: | Saarbrücken |
Free key words: | socioeconomics of volunteering survey data football motives |
DDC notations: | 300 Social sciences, sociology, anthropology 796 Sports |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | Using data for a large sample of German football referees, we studied the motives for becoming a football referee. Based on a long modeling tradition in the literature on the economics of volunteering, we studied altruistic motives (public-goods model) versus non-altruistic (egoistic private-consumption motives and human-capital motives). We differentiated between self-attributed and other-attributed motives. We found that altruistic motives on average are less strong than other motives. Other-attributed altruistic motives are stronger than self-attributed altruistic motives, indicating the presence of a self-interest bias. We further found that referees who report strong altruistic motives have a higher willingness to quit refereeing when other referees would referee more matches, consistent with the public-goods model. In line with the human-capital model, altruistic motives are stronger for senior referees. Altruistic motives are also stronger for those referees who view refereeing as a volunteer activity. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-ds-270384 hdl:20.500.11880/26976 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-27038 |
Series name: | Diskussionspapiere des Europäischen Instituts für Sozioökonomie e.V. = Working papers of the European Institute for Socioeconomics |
Series volume: | 16 |
Date of registration: | 7-Mar-2018 |
Faculty: | HW - Fakultät für Empirische Humanwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaft |
Department: | HW - Sportwissenschaft |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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