Volunteering and income - The fallacy of the good samaritan?
Volunteering and income - The fallacy of the good samaritan?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6435.2007.00360.x
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
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影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Pruckner, Gerald J.
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作者：
Hackl, Franz;Halla, Martin;Pruckner, Gerald J.
本文探讨了志愿服务的个体动机。分析的基础是将志愿服务解释为一种消费商品(消费模式)或作为增加个人自身人力资本的手段(投资模式)。我们提出了一个计量经济学框架，该框架考虑了志愿服务中的自我选择以及志愿服务决策和收入决定之间的同时性，以检验这两个模型，并确定潜在的动机。我们发现，志愿服务对工资水平具有非常稳健和显著的影响的投资模型得到了强有力的统计证据。在投资模式的框架内，事实证明，志愿服务小时数在解释工资溢价方面发挥了重要作用。这支持了技能获取对积累人力资本的重要性，以及加深社会联系和发出履行意愿的信号的重要性。就消费模型而言，我们没有找到明确的统计证据来证明其有效性。
This paper explores individual motives for volunteering. The analysis is based on the interpretation of volunteering as a consumption good (consumption model) or as a mean to increase individual's own human capital (investment model). We present an econometric framework taking into account self selection into volunteering and simultaneity between the volunteering decision and the determination of income in order to test these two models and to identify the underlying motives.We find strong statistical evidence for the investment model with a highly robust and significant impact of volunteering on the wage rate. Within the framework of the investment model it turns out that the number of volunteering hours plays a major role in explaining this wage premium. This supports the significance of skill acquisition to accumulate human capital, the importance of deepening of social contacts and signalling willingness to perform. As far as the consumption model is concerned we find no clear statistical evidence for its validity.