Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177629 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 17-061/VII
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
altruism
charitable donations
volunteering
public sector employment
job switchers
mission motivation
JEL: 
D64
H11
J45
M50
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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