Does volunteering increase employment opportunities? An experimental approach
| dc.contributor.author | Alfonso Costillo, Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morales Sanchez, Rafael | |
| dc.contributor.author | López Pintado, Dunia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-11-13T18:31:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-11-13T18:31:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Alfonso-Costillo, A., Morales-Sánchez, R., & López-Pintado, D. (2021). Does volunteering increase employment opportunities? An experimental approach. Economics Letters, 203, 109854. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109854 | es |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0165-1765 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/7550 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We study the benefits of doing volunteer work when seeking employment opportunities. We do so by sending 2000 fictitious curricula to a large online platform of job offers in the United States. Half of these curricula are randomly assigned volunteer activities. We find that people who do volunteer work receive 45 percent more callbacks for interviews. The volunteering premium is not uniform across economic sectors. In retailing and real estate, it is significant, whereas in the other sectors we have studied (animal service, technology and automobile) it is not. | es |
| dc.description.abstract | Se trata versión preprint del documento | es |
| dc.language.iso | eng | es |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | es |
| dc.title | Does volunteering increase employment opportunities? An experimental approach | es |
| dc.type | article | es |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109854 | |
| dc.journal.title | Economics Letters | es |
| dc.page.initial | 1 | es |
| dc.page.final | 10 | es |
| dc.relation.references | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/103976/ | es |
| dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | es |
| dc.subject.keyword | Job market | es |
| dc.subject.keyword | Volunteering | es |
| dc.subject.keyword | Field experiment | es |
| dc.volume.number | 203 | es |
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