Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work:An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

No 408, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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 nonprofit sectors, 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 premiums, which support the property rights hypothesis.

Keywords: Nonprofit sector; employment; child care (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J2 J3 J5 L3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: Written 2001-12
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Working Paper: Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers (2000)
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