Volunteering at the extensive margins in Developing Countries: Extrinsic or Intrinsic Motives?

Dayé, Modeste (2014): Volunteering at the extensive margins in Developing Countries: Extrinsic or Intrinsic Motives?

Abstract

The goal of this paper was to identify the reasons behind the supply for free of labor in a world where rationality requires people to avoid resource misallocation and to care mainly for their own welfare. We based the identification strategy on simple consumption and investment models with a focus on developing countries for the empirical part. Using some probability models and estimation techniques , we found an ambiguous coexistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic motives for volunteering.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Volunteering, extensive margins, intrinsic motives, extrinsic motives.
• Subjects: J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J21 - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development; Y - Miscellaneous Categories > Y1 - Data: Tables and Charts; Y - Miscellaneous Categories > Y4 - Dissertations (unclassified)

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