Does it pay to care? Volunteering and employment opportunities

Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica

doi:10.1007/s00148-017-0682-8

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“…In line with Table 1, we find that the odds of a better outcome (a job interview invitation versus any other positive reaction; any other positive reaction versus no positive reaction) is 29.4% lower for candidates with a Turkish name. In addition, and in line with Baert and Vujić (2016), the overall volunteering premium is substantial. More importantly, however, we find that ethnic discrimination is significantly heterogeneous by revealed prosocial engagement of job candidates.…”

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Immigrant volunteering: A way out of labour market discrimination?

Baert

Vujić

2016

Economics Letters

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Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them. To this end, we use unique data from a field experiment in which fictitious job applications are sent in response to real vacancies in Belgium. Ethnic origin and volunteer activities are randomly assigned to these applications. While non-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non-volunteering migrants, no unequal treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities.

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“…The data for the pairs with a Flemish-sounding name were analysed by Baert and Vujić (2016) with a focus on the general premium of volunteering. We refer to their study for further details on the experimental data gathering.…”

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Immigrant volunteering: A way out of labour market discrimination?

Baert

Vujić

2016

Economics Letters

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“…For example, in a recent correspondence testing study, Baert and Vujić (2016) show that job seekers who indicate volunteering on their resumes receive one third more interview invitations, and that this volunteering premium is higher for women. A leading professional social network, LinkedIn (2016), using data on members, estimates that one in five managers hire someone because of their volunteering experience.…”

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Can Raising Instructional Time Crowd Out Student Pro-Social Behaviour? Evidence from Germany

Krekel

2017

SSRN Journal

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PARIS-JOURDAN SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES AbstractWe study whether raising instructional time can crowd out student pro-social behaviour. To this end, we exploit a large educational reform in Germany that has raised weekly instructional hours for high school students by 12.5% as a quasi-natural experiment. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that this rise has a negative and sizeable effect on volunteering, both at the intensive and at the extensive margin. It also affects political interest. There is no similar crowding out of scholastic involvement, but no substitution either. Impacts seem to be driven by a reduction in available leisure time as opposed to a rise in intensity of instruction, and to be temporary only. Robustness checks, including placebo tests and triple differencing, confirm our results.

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“…One potentially important alternative motivation to volunteer is to increase job perspectives. For instance, because a worker obtains skills through volunteering that are useful in the labor market, or because volunteering gives the employer a positive signal about the worker's personality, see for example Baert and Vujić (2016). One may expect the bene…ts of volunteering for career enhancement to be larger in the beginning of a worker's career, since in this phase other signals about the worker's ability and personality are more scarce.…”

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“…This paper explores panel data while Dur and Van Lent use cross sectional data. 3 We study a sample of Dutch workers, while Dur and Van Lent study German workers. Besides analyzing job switchers, this paper also uses a plausibly exogenous change in workers ability to help others onthe-job by studying changes in the match of mission preferences between government workers and their employer.…”

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Increasing the Well-Being of Others On-the-Job and Outside the Workplace

Lent

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Increasing the well-being of others on-the-job and outside the workplace Terms of use: Documents in Max van LentApril 20, 2017 AbstractWe study the relationship between workers'opportunities to help others on-the-job and volunteering behavior outside the workplace.We predict that there is substitutability between workers'contribution to other peoples'well-being by exerting e¤ort on-the-job and outside the workplace. We test this prediction using rich data from the Dutch LISS Panel. We exploit variation in workers' opportunities to help others on-the-job from two sources: i) workers'job switching behavior and ii) changes in workers' opportunities to help others on their current job through plausibly exogenous changes in workers' match of mission preferences with their employer. We …nd some support for our prediction.

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Does it pay to care? Volunteering and employment opportunities

Cited by 42 publications

References 58 publications

Immigrant volunteering: A way out of labour market discrimination?

Immigrant volunteering: A way out of labour market discrimination?

Can Raising Instructional Time Crowd Out Student Pro-Social Behaviour? Evidence from Germany

Increasing the Well-Being of Others On-the-Job and Outside the Workplace

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