Asian immigrants accounted for one-eighth of the total U.S. population in 2009. With Asian immigrants having higher levels of education and income than average Americans, their potential contribution to American philanthropy will be even more significant. This study examines the volunteering patterns of Korean immigrants, one of the fastest growing segments of the Asian immigrant population in the United States. This study explains Korean immigrants' volunteering within ethnic and mainstream (American) organizations using the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital. The bivariate probit regression results suggest that ethnic volunteering and mainstream volunteering are generally the substitutes for each other. The findings nevertheless suggest that providing Asian immigrants' with English education and continuing education opportunities may boost their volunteering to mainstream nonprofit organizations without discouraging their volunteering for ethnic organizations.Résumé Les immigrants asiatiques représentaient un huitième de la population totale des É .U. en 2009. Le niveau d'éducation et le revenu des immigrants asiatiques étant supérieurs à ceux d'un américain moyen, leur contribution potentielle à la philanthropie en Amérique n'en est que plus importante. Cette étude examine les modalités de bénévolat des immigrants coréens, l'un des segments de population dont l'accroissement est le plus rapide parmi les immigrants asiatiques aux É tatsUnis. Cette étude utilise les concepts de cohésion et de rapprochement du capital social pour explorer le bénévolat des immigrants coréens au sein des organisations ethniques et traditionnelles (américaines). Les résultats du modèle probit à deux variables suggèrent que le bénévolat ethnique et le bénévolat traditionnel se substituent généralement l'un à l'autre. Néanmoins, les conclusions suggèrent que le fait de donner aux immigrants asiatiques une éducation anglaise ainsi que des opportunités de poursuite des études sont susceptibles d'accroître leur participation bénévole aux organisations à but non lucratif traditionnelles, sans pour autant décourager leurs efforts de bénévolat envers les organisations ethniques.Zusammenfassung 2009 machten asiatische Einwanderer ein Achtel der gesamten US-Bevölkerung aus. Da der Bildungsstand und das Einkommen asiatischer Einwanderer über dem durchschnittlicher Amerikaner liegt, nimmt ihr potentieller Beitrag zur amerikanischen Philantrophie noch an Bedeutung zu. Diese Studie untersucht die Verhaltensmuster koreanischer Einwanderer im ehrenamtlichen Bereich. Koreaner zählen zu den am schnellsten wachsenden Teilen der asiatischen eingewanderten Bevölkerung in den USA. Die Studie erläutert die ehrenamtlichen Tätigkeiten koreanischer Einwanderer bei ethnischen und generellen (amerikanischen) Organisationen, die Konzepte zur Bindung und Ü berbrückung von sozialem Kapital anwenden. Die Ergebnisse der bivariaten Probit-Regression lassen darauf schließen, dass ethnische und generelle ehrenamtliche Tätigkeiten im Allgemeinen untereinan...
This study identifies the factors and their associated motivations that can influence corporate environmental performance in U.S. voluntary environmental programs (VEPs). The effectiveness of the programs is discussed. We construct an ordered logit regression model to estimate the voluntary environmental performance of 330 firms that participated in the Green Lights/Energy Star for Buildings (GL/ESBs) program between 1995 and 2000. Our analysis suggests that corporate participants with motives that are aligned with market interests are more likely to complete their environmental pledges to a higher level than those whose primary intent is to relieve institutional and regulatory pressures. It also provides strong evidence of corporate opportunism in the program.
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