The economic and contracting issues of in-home child care: the nanny market

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dc.contributor.authorDempsey, Deborah Lewisen
dc.contributor.committeechairMackay, Robert J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMeiselman, David I.en
dc.contributor.committeememberPorter, William R.en
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:42:09Zen
dc.date.adate2009-08-04en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:42:09Zen
dc.date.issued1991-04-15en
dc.date.rdate2009-08-04en
dc.date.sdate2009-08-04en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is an industry study of the market for in-home child care--a market which has developed rapidly in the past 10 years. The economic considerations discussed herein are the market-making characteristics of demand (for nannies), supply (availability of an appropriately skilled labor pool--from both the legal and illegal market), price (wage levels and premiums) and the contracting issues of asymmetric information, search costs, transaction costs, uncertainty and risk. The market is best-explained as a search model and its behavior is driven by solutions to contracting problems.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentv, 127 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08042009-040303en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08042009-040303/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44147en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1991.D467.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 24583058en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1991.D467en
dc.subject.lcshChild care services -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshNannies -- United Statesen
dc.titleThe economic and contracting issues of in-home child care: the nanny marketen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineEconomicsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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