Does it pay to care? Volunteering and employment opportunities

Stijn Baert; Sunčica Vujić

doi:10.1007/s00148-017-0682-8

Does it pay to care? Volunteering and employment opportunities

Stijn Baert^*, Sunčica Vujić

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Abstract

We investigate whether volunteering has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies in Belgium. We find that volunteers are 7.3 percentage points more likely to get a positive reaction to their job applications. The volunteering premium is higher for females but invariant with respect to the number of engagements.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	819-836
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Population Economics
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-017-0682-8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Experiments
Labour market
Statistical discrimination
Volunteering

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