Willingness to volunteer among remote workers is insensitive to the team size

Adrian Hillenbrand, Tobias Werner and Fabian Winter

No 22-050, ZEW Discussion Papers from ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Abstract: Volunteering is a widespread allocation mechanism in the workplace. It emerges naturally in software development or the generation of online knowledge platforms. Using a field experiment with more than 2000 workers, we study the effect of team size on volunteering in an online labor market. In contrast to our theoretical predictions and previous research, we find no effect of team size on volunteering although workers react to free riding incentives. We replicate the results and provide further robustness checks. Eliciting workers' beliefs about their co-workers' volunteering reveals conditional volunteering as the primary driver of our results.

Keywords: volunteering; "volunteer's dilemma"; remote work; team size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 C93 H41 J4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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