title: The role of family social background and inheritance in later life volunteering: evidence from SHARE-Israel.
abstract: Building on a tripartite model of capitals necessary to perform productive activities and on work suggesting that cumulative (dis-)advantage processes are important mechanisms for life course inequalities, our study set out to investigate the potential role of family social background and inheritance in later life volunteering. We hypothesized that older individuals who inherited work-relevant economic and cultural capitals from their family of origin are more likely to be engaged in voluntary activities than their counterparts with a less advantageous family social background. Our main findings from the analysis of a representative sample of community-dwelling Israelis aged 50 and over provide strong support for this hypothesis: the likelihood to volunteer is significantly higher among those who received substantial financial transfers from their family of origin ("inherited economic capital") and among those having a "white collar" parental background ("inherited cultural capital"). We conclude with perspectives for future research.
authors: Israel Gerontological Data Center, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel Department of Economics and Management "Marco Fanno," University of Padua, Padua, Italy iaroslav.youssim@mail.huji.ac.il.
authors: Iaroslav
authors: I
authors: Youssim
authors: University of Cologne, Köln, Germany DIW, Berlin, Germany.
authors: Karsten
authors: K
authors: Hank
authors: Israel Gerontological Data Center, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel School of Social Work and Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors: Howard
authors: H
authors: Litwin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D014838:Volunteers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014918:Wills
keywords: SHARE; habitus; inheritance; life course analysis; volunteering
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