Does volunteering increase employment opportunities? An experimental approach
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Abstract We study the benefits of doing volunteer work when seeking employment opportunities. do so by sending 2000 fictitious curricula to a large online platform job offers in United States. Half these are randomly assigned activities. find that people who receive 45 percent more callbacks for interviews. The volunteering premium is not uniform across economic sectors. In retailing and real estate, it significant, whereas other sectors we have studied (animal service, technology, automobile) not.
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عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1873-7374', '0165-1765']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109854