Volunteering And Social Support > Society statistics - countries compared. DEFINITION A tool for valuing volunteering is provided by the new Handbook on Nonprofit Institutions in the System of National Accounts, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civic Society Studies in co-operation with the United Nations Statistics Division. The Handbook recommends that countries regularly produce satellite accounts of the non-profit sector, providing a comprehensive picture of its size and operation. So far, eight OECD countries have implemented this handbook, with data referring to a year between 1999 and 2004, and four additional countries are committed to do so in the future. Beyond the comprehensive information available through these handbooks, information on the size of volunteering and social support is available for a larger number of countries through household surveys. The data presented here are drawn from the Gallup World Poll.
Data on volunteering are based on the two following questions: Have you donated money to an organization in the last month? Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Share: MyIDEAS: Login Fourni par Traduction Author Info Di Tella, R.MacCulloch, R. Abstract We analyze the relationship between the family and the Welfare State when intra-family transfers are governed by risk-sharing considerations (i.e. not by altruism). Download Info To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. Bibliographic Info Paper provided by University of Oxford, Department of Economics in its series Economics Series Working Papers with number 99195.Length: 37 pagesDate of creation: 1997Date of revision:Handle: RePEc:oxf:wpaper:99195 Contact details of provider: Postal: Manor Rd.
Related research Keywords: FAMILY ; SOCIAL WELFARE; Find related papers by JEL classification: References No references listed on IDEAS You can help add them by filling out this form. Citations Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item. Lists This item is not listed on Wikipedia, on a reading list or among the top items on IDEAS. Statistics Corrections. The Impact of the Welfare State on the American Family. Welfare State Begets Family Breakdown. Welfare State Begets Family Breakdown by W. James Antle III May 6, 2002 President Bush's proposal to spend $300 million to encourage marriage among those dependent on welfare highlights the symbiotic relationship between the welfare state and family breakdown.
One of the most important observations in David Frum's excellent analysis of the modern American conservative movement, Dead Right, focused on the futility of social conservatives ignoring the expanding welfare state in favor of efforts to preserve the family and traditional cultural mores. The welfare state, by assuming functions typically belonging to the family and therefore making aspects of family life economically redundant, actually encourages family fragmentation.
It is not difficult to imagine why this is so. "To expect a nation of fragmented families to turn away from an expanding welfare state is to expect a miracle," Gallagher wrote in NRO. Case in point is the post-Great Society collapse of the urban black family. Usaid. A Nation of Givers. Q. How much do Americans give? Is the amount we give going up?
A. In 2006, Americans gave about $295 billion to charity. Q. Q. People who give to charity at least once per year are twice as likely to donate blood as people who don’t give money. Q. The amount of taxes not paid because of donations is huge: it represents the single largest government “matching grant” program ever. Still, tax deductibility is actually irrelevant for most people. Q. Second, people who give away their time and money to established charities are far more likely than non-givers to act generously in informal ways as well. Q. Very little of this gap is due to personal differences between religious and secular people with respect to income, age, family, or anything else. Q. Religious people were also far more likely than secularists to give in informal, nonreligious ways. Q. Low-income working families are the most generous group in America, giving away about 4.5 percent of their income on average.
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