Objectives - Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, we investigate linkages between volunteer work, informal helping, and caring among Europeans aged 50 or older: Is the relationship between these activities characterized by complementarity or by substitution? Is there evidence for the...

Parallel zur Debatte um die demographische Alterung der Gesellschaft - häufig als wachsende "Alterslast" interpretiert - ist in den vergangenen Jahren auch der Bedeutung produktiver Tätigkeitsfelder älterer Menschen nach ihrem Ausscheiden aus dem Beruf - und hier insbesondere dem Ehrenamt -...

Taking a cross-national perspective, we investigate linkages between volunteer work, informal help, and care among Europeans aged 50 or older. Based on 27,305 personal interviews from the 2004 Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we estimate univariate and multivariate probit...