Educational differences in volunteering in cross-national perspective: Individual and contextual explanations

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-81

  Gesthuizen, Maurice ^a   Scheepers, Peer ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cross national comparisons; educational differences; individual explanations; volunteering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857097610     PISSN: 08997640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0899764010394203     Document Type: Article

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