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Is Healthcare Employment Resilient and "Recession Proof"?

Dillender, Marcus; Friedson, Andrew; Thanh Cong Gian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Conventional wisdom often holds that the healthcare sector fares better than other sectors during economic downturns. However, little research has examined the relationship between local economic conditions and healthcare employment. Understanding how the healthcare sector responds to economic...

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Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Breza, Emily; Stanford, Fatima Cody; Alsan, Marcella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors. Our group of clinicians and nurses developed and recorded short video messages to encourage...

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Immigration, The Long-Term Care Workforce, and Elder Outcomes in the U.S.

Grabowski, David C.; Gruber, Jonathan; McGarry, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although debates over immigration remain contentious, one important sector served heavily by immigrants faces a critical labor shortage: nursing homes. We merge a variety of data sets on immigration and nursing homes and use a shift-share instrumental variables analysis to assess the impact of...

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Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice and Patient Harm : Evidence from Medical Malpractice Cases and Adverse Action Reports

Markowitz, Sara; Smith, Andrew J. D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Many states have recently changed their scope of practice laws and granted full practice authority to nurse practitioners, allowing them to practice without oversight from physicians. Physician groups have argued against this change, citing patient safety concerns. In this paper, we use a...

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The Productivity of Professions : Evidence from the Emergency Department

Chan, David C.; Chen, Yiqun - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Professions play a key role in determining the division of labor and the returns to skilled work. This paper studies the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing overlapping tasks but with stark differences in background,...

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Incentives and Careers in Organizations

Gibbons, Robert - 1996

This paper surveys two related pieces of the labor-economics literature: incentive pay and careers in organizations. In the discussion of incentives, I first summarize theory and evidence related to the classic agency model, which emphasizes the tradeoff between insurance and incentives. I then...

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Managing to Learn

Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms … sector managers can signal reform effectiveness through personal commitment, acting as leaders …

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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the … descriptive analysis of mobility for the famine-era Irish sons indicates that more Catholic surnames and birth in Ireland were …

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The boundary of the firm in a model of trade within a hierarchy

Levy, Nadav (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-world multidivisional firms: Operative decisions are in the hands of middle managers who are rewarded with incentive contracts based on the … performance of their units; Managers' decisions are subject to approval and intervention by the top management of the firm; and … managers are better informed regarding the affairs of their divisions than their superiors in the firm's hierarchy. In this …

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Managerial Value Diversion and Shareholder Wealth

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000

managers. We question this view within its own analytical framework by studying, in a principal-agent model, the effects of … diversion overlooks a significant cost of such behavior. Many common modes of compensation can provide managers with incentives …

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