Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data on Child Care WorkersNaci H. Mocan and Erdal Tekin () The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, vol. 85, issue 1, pages 38-50 Abstract: This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or the nonprofit sector and into full-time or part-time work, as well as for unobserved worker heterogeneity, using a discrete factor model. We find differences between the regimes (full-time for-profit, full-time nonprofit, part-time for-profit, part-time nonprofit) in the manner in which human capital characteristics of the workers are rewarded. There is substantial variation in wages as a function of employee characteristics, and there is variation in wages within sectors. The results indicate that part-time jobs are good jobs in center-based child care, and there exist nonprofit wage and compensation premia, which support the property-rights hypothesis. Copyright (c) 2003 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Downloads: (external link) Related works: Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article The Review of Economics and Statistics is edited by Daron Acemoglu, George J. Borjas, Dani Rodrik and Julio J. Rotemberg More articles in The Review of Economics and Statistics from MIT Press |
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