Building bridges or deepening divides: Resources and formal volunteering in post-apartheid South Africa
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Keywords
Volunteering; human capital; social capital; ‘Ubuntu’; religiosity;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
- L32 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2017-05-28 (Africa)
- NEP-SOC-2017-05-28 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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