The Payoff to Work without Pay: Volunteer Work as an Investment in Human Capital
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économiquePublished 1 November 1998
Kathleen M. Day, Rose Anne Devlin
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Despite the widespread belief that volunteer work enhances an individual's employment prospects, the hypothesis that volunteer work increases one's earnings has
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