Does Pay Motivate Volunteers? Export

@misc{citeulike:1031343, abstract = {Volunteer work is an increasingly large, yet ill-understood sector of the economy. We show that monetary rewards undermine the intrinsic motivation of volunteers. A unique data set from Switzerland allows us to assess the effects of financial rewards on the effort put into volunteer work. There is a fairly standard pattern regarding the volunteers reaction e.g. to more labor market work hours. But we obtain the puzzling result that, when rewarded, volunteers work less. These findings are in...}, author = {Frey, Bruno S. and Goette, Lorenz}, citeulike-article-id = {1031343}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.764}, keywords = {economic-psychology, money, motivation, social-psychology}, posted-at = {2007-01-10 14:53:30}, priority = {4}, title = {Does Pay Motivate Volunteers?}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.764} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:1031343 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1031343 N2 - Volunteer work is an increasingly large, yet ill-understood sector of the economy. We show that monetary rewards undermine the intrinsic motivation of volunteers. A unique data set from Switzerland allows us to assess the effects of financial rewards on the effort put into volunteer work. There is a fairly standard pattern regarding the volunteers reaction e.g. to more labor market work hours. But we obtain the puzzling result that, when rewarded, volunteers work less. These findings are in... TI - Does Pay Motivate Volunteers? KW - economic-psychology KW - money KW - motivation KW - social-psychology AU - Frey, Bruno AU - Goette, Lorenz UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.764 ER -