Volunteering in Retirement: Perceptions of Midlife Workers

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-73

  Smith, Deborah B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Midlife; Perception; Retirement; Voluntarism; Volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 1342346359     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764003260591     Document Type: Review

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