Nonprofit sector and part-time work: An analysis of employer-employee matched data on child care workers

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Author	Mocan, H. Naci Tekin, Erdal
Abstract	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. I.
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Journal	Rev. Econ. Stat
Language	English
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Subject Keyword	Nonprofit Sector Part-time Work Child Care Worker Compensation Premia Empirical Strategy Adjusts Compensation Differential Part-time Job Full-time For-profit Part-time For-profit Unobserved Worker Heterogeneity Child Care Part-time Nonprofit Nonprofit Wage Human Capital Characteristic Part-time Wage Center-based Child Care Employee Characteristic Substantial Variation Full-time Nonprofit Data Set Property-rights Hypothesis Good Job Discrete Factor Model Rich Employer Employee
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