Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
fee-for-service basis. Since wage rates are exogenous, earning differentials are driven by differences in productivity. We …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity … physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low-productivity …