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Article: Nonprofit employment goes global. (Research).(Brief Article)
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- Association Management
- Article date:
- July 1, 2003
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It may come as a bit of a surprise that the United States is fourth in terms of economic activity generated by nonprofit workers (including volunteers), according to the latest phase of a Johns Hopkins University multiyear study.
In the United States, 9.8 percent of economic activity comes in the form of nonprofit work. Just ahead are Belgium and Ireland at a little more than 10 percent. The Netherlands, however, pulls farthest ahead with the nonprofit share of the workforce at 14.4 percent. Perhaps predictably, nonprofit activity is lowest in ...