Journal Article

The economic benefits of volunteering and social class

Authors

Publication date

Jan 2020

Summary

A theory that the economic benefits of volunteering are contingent on social class (as defined by similarities in labour market situation) is tested using seven waves of longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study gathered between 1996 and 2008 and fixed-effects models. Volunteering has a positive effect on earnings, but it is confined to people in professional and managerial occupations. Employees in white and blue collar jobs do not benefit. The study suggests that inconsistent results from previous studies might be due to failure to consider occupational heterogeneity among volunteers.

Published in

Social Science Research

Volume

85:102368

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102368

ISSN

16

Subjects

Labour Market, Economics, Wages And Earnings, Social Capital, and Social Stratification

Links

University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library Periodicals *restricted to University of Essex registered users* - https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2017725?lang=eng

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