Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265423 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 22-050
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism in the workplace. It emerges naturally in software development or the generation of online knowledge platforms. Using a field experiment with more than 2000 workers, we study the effect of team size on volunteering in an online labor market. In contrast to our theoretical predictions and previous research, we find no effect of team size on volunteering although workers react to free riding incentives. We replicate the results and provide further robustness checks. Eliciting workers' beliefs about their co-workers' volunteering reveals conditional volunteering as the primary driver of our results.
Subjects: 
volunteering
"volunteer's dilemma"
remote work
team size
JEL: 
C72
C93
H41
J4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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