Volunteering and volunteers: Benefit-cost analyses

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 412-420

  Handy, Femida ^a   Mook, Laurie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

benefit cost; social accounting; value added; volunteer labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958756705     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731510386625     Document Type: Article

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