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Increasing the Well-Being of Others On-the-Job and Outside the Workplace
We 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 effort 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 find some support for our prediction.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 17-061/VII
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Public Sector Labor Markets
Personnel Economics: General
- Subject
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altruism
charitable donations
volunteering
public sector employment
job switchers
mission motivation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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van Lent, Max
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Tinbergen Institute
- (where)
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- van Lent, Max
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2017
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