The attrition of volunteers

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-51

  Dekimpe, Marnik G ^a   Degraeve, Zeger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hazard models; Health services; Personnel

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PERSONNEL;

HAZARD RATE MODEL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0031121948     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0377-2217(95)00337-1     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Annual Report of the Flemish Division of the Belgian Red Cross, 1992. Brussels.
2. Brown, E. and Lankford, H., 1992. Gifts of money and gifts of time: estimating the effects of tax prices and available time. Journal of Public Economics 47, 321-341.
3. Cnaan, R.A. and Goldberg-Glen, R.S., 1991.Measuring motivation to volunteer in human services. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 27, 269-284.
4. Commission of the European Communities, 1986.The extent and kind of voluntary work in the EEC. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg.
5. Flinn, C.J. and Heckman, J.J., 1982. New methods for analyzing individual event histories. In: S. Leinhardt (ed.), Sociological Methodology, 1982. Blackwell Publishers, San Francisco, 99-140.
6. Frish, M.B. and Gerrard, M., 1981. Natural helping systems: A survey of Red Cross volunteers. American Journal of Community Psychology 9, 567-579.
7. Gidron, B., 1985. Predictors of retention and turnover among service volunteer workers. Journal of Social Service Research 8, 1-16.
8. Gillespie, D.F. and King, A.E.O., 1985. Demographic understanding of volunteerism. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 12, 798-816.
9. Gupta, S., 1991. Stochastic models of interpurchase time with time-dependent covariates. Journal of Marketing Research 28, 1-15.
10. Han, A. and Hausman, J., 1990. Flexible parametric estimation of duration and competing risk models. Journal of Applied Econometrics 5, 1-28.
11. Heckman, J. and Singer, B., 1982. Population heterogeneity in demographic models. In: K. Land and A. Rogers (eds.), Multidimensional Mathematical Demography, Academic Press, New York, 567-599.
12. Heckman, J. and Singer, B., 1984a. A method for minimizing the impact of distributional assumptions in econometric models for duration data. Econometrica 52, 271-320.
13. Heckman, J. and Singer, B., 1984b. Econometric duration analysis. Journal of Econometrics 24, 63-132.
14. Huselid, M.A. and Day, N.E., 1991. Organizational commitment, job involvement, and turnover a substantive and methodological analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology 76, 380-391.
15. Jain, D.C. and Vilcassim, N., 1991. Investigating household purchase timing decisions: a conditional hazard function approach. Marketing Science 10, 1-23.
16. Kiefer, N.M., 1988. Analysis of grouped duration data. In: N.U. Prabhu (ed.), Statistical Inference from Stochastic Processes, American Mathematical Society, Providence.
17. Lafer, B., 1991. The attrition of hospice volunteers. Omega-Journal of Death and Dying 23, 161-168.
18. Lammers, J.C., 1991. Attitudes, motives and demographic predictors of volunteer commitment and service duration. Journal of Social Service Research 14, 125-140.
19. Lancaster, T., 1990. The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
20. Manton, K.G., Singer, B. and Woodbury, M.A., 1992. Some issues in the quantitative characterization of heterogeneous populations. In: J. Trussell, R. Hankinson and J. Tilton (eds.), Demographic Applications of Event History Analysis, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 9-37.
21. Manton, K.G., Stallard, E. and Vaupel, J.W., 1986. Alternative models for the heterogeneity of mortality risks among the aged. Journal of the American Statistical Association 81, 635-644.
22. Mergenhagen, P., 1991. A new breed of volunteer. American Demographics 13, 54-55.
23. Meyer, B.D., 1986. Semiparametric estimation of hazard models. Working Paper, MIT.
24. Meyer, B.D., 1990. Unemployment, insurance and unemployment spells. Econometrica 58, 757-782.
25. Morrow-Howell, N. and Mui, A., 1989. Elderly volunteers: reasons for initiating and terminating service. Journal of Gerontological Social Work 13, 21-34.
26. Newsweek, 1989. Volunteerism increases, July 10, 26.
27. Ridder, G., 1986. The sensitivity of duration models to misspecified unobserved heterogeneity and duration dependence. Unpublished Manuscript, University of Amsterdam.
28. Rubin, A. and Thorelli, I.M., 1984. Egoistic motives and longevity of participation by social service volunteers. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 20, 223-235.
29. Schmittlein, D.C. and Helsen, K., 1989. A method for analyzing left-filtered marketing durations with an application to panel dropout Working Paper, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
30. Schmittlein, D.C. and Morrison, D.G., 1983. Modelling and estimation using job duration data. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance 32, 1-22.
31. Schram, V.R. and Dunsing, M.M., 1981. Influences on married women's volunteer participation. Journal of Consumer Research 7, 372-379.
32. Sharma, S. and Sinha, R.K., 1991. Firm characteristics, market structure and the dynamics of technology diffusion: a semiparametric econometric model. Working Paper, Department of Economics, UCLA.
33. Sorce, P., Tyler, P.R., and Minno, J.R., 1985. Marketing your organization to the health services volunteer. Journal of Health Care Marketing 5, 55-63.
34. Strober, M.N. and Weinberg, C.B., 1980. Strategies used by working and nonworking wives to reduce time pressures. Journal of Consumer Research 6, 338-348.
35. Sundeen, R.A., 1992. Differences in personal goals and attitudes among volunteers. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 21, 271-291.
36. Trussell, J. and Richards, T., 1985. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity in hazard models using the Heckman-Singer procedure. In: N.B. Tuma (ed.), Sociological Methodology, 1985. Blackwell Publishers, San Francisco, 242-276.
37. Tuma, N.B. and Hannan, M.T., 1984. Social Dynamics: Models and Methods, Academic Press, Orlando.
38. Unger, L.S., 1991. Altruism as a motivation to volunteer. Journal of Economic Psychology 12, 71-100.
39. Vanhuele, M.K., Dekimpe, M.G., Morrison, D.G. and Sharma, S., 1995. Probability models for duration: the data don't tell the whole story. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 62, 1-13.
40. Vilcassim, N. and Jain, D.C., 1991. Modeling purchase timing and brand-switching behavior incorporating explanatory variables and unobserved heterogeneity. Journal of Marketing Research 28, 29-41.
41. Verstraete, C., 1994. Handleiding Recrutering, Internal document of the Flemish division of the Belgian Red Cross.