Labor Economics and the Nonprofit Sector: A Literature Review
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
- Vol. 19 (2) , 151-169
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089976409001900206
Abstract
The economics literature on nonprofit utilization of employees and volunteers is reviewed and synthesized. Economic motivations for volunteering and accepting volunteers are explored along with inter actions between gifts of time and of money and the economic value of volunteer labor. Also examined are factors explaining wage differ ences between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors and the differential employment of women and minorities.Keywords
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