ALFONSO COSTILLO, ANTONIO, Morales-Sánchez R. , López-Pintado D.

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Econ. Lett.

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85104463479&doi=10.1016%2fj.econlet.2021.109854&partnerID=40&md5=2ddeef3f4f747c3ec48e4201a2930419

01/01/2021

000651119700014

2-s2.0-85104463479

10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109854

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. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

Field experiment; Job market; Volunteering