TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mocan,H. Naci
AU  - Tekin,Erdal
TI  - Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7977
PY  - 2000
Y2  - October 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7977
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7977.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Naci H. Mocan
Department of Economics
Louisiana State University
2119 Patrick F. Taylor Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-6306
Tel: 225/578-4570
E-Mail: mocan@lsu.edu

Erdal Tekin
Department of Economics
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3992
Atlanta, GA 30302-3992
Tel: 404/413-0163
Fax: 404/413-0145
E-Mail: tekin@gsu.edu
AB  - 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 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 way in which human capital 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.  Furthermore, despite the evidence supporting the labor donation hypothesis, our results indicate the existence of nonprofit wage and compensation premiums, which support the property rights hypothesis.
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