A Comparison of Wage Inequality in For-profit, Non-Profit and Local Government Organizations: Nursing Homes in the Midwestern US

Avner Ben-Ner (), Ting Ren and Darla Flint Paulson
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Darla Flint Paulson: University of Minnesota

Chapter Chapter 12 in Paid and Unpaid Labour in the Social Economy, 2009, pp 197-219 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This essay is devoted to investigate ownership-related wage differentials, distinguishing between nonprofit, for-profit and local government organizations, within a sample of US nursing homes. It focuses on within-organization across-occupation wage dispersion. The results do not support widespread opinions about wage dispersion across the three ownership types. Neither the intrinsic motivation perspective’s prediction of less inequality among employees in nonprofit and government sectors, nor the agency theory prediction that higher level employees will use their influence to increase their own well-being without increasing the well-being of others, are supported.

Keywords: Nursing Home; Intrinsic Motivation; Nonprofit Organization; Agency Theory; Nonprofit Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2137-6_12

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