Dempsey, Deborah Lewis2014-03-142014-03-141991-04-15etd-08042009-040303http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44147This 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.v, 127 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1991.D467Child care services -- United StatesNannies -- United StatesThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08042009-040303/