Working for Nothing: The Supply of Volunteer Labor
发现美国志愿活动规模可观,志愿者技能和机会成本高,标准劳动供给理论只能解释一小部分志愿行为,许多人只在被请求时才志愿,表明志愿是一种“良心活动”。
Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This article shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the United States, that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time, that standard labor supply explanations of volunteering account for only a minor part of volunteer behavior, and that many volunteer only when requested to do so. This suggests that volunteering is a "conscience good or activity"-something that people feel morally obligated to do when asked, but which they would just as soon let someone else do.