unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with … a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse sensitive patient outcomes measures. We also find that hospitals with a unionization … hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …

hospitals change their provision of care to insured heart attack patients in response to reduced revenues, the evidence I have …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 … change. The results show that, on average, Portuguese hospitals did not experience productivity growth during the period … analyzed. In addition, the incidence of positive productivity growth across Portuguese hospitals was remarkably low. …

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital … employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in Not-For-Profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling … for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to Public hospitals …

are collected on the top-100 U.S. hospitals in 2009, as identified by a widely-used media-generated ranking of quality, in … executive officers of these hospitals are then traced by hand. The CEOs are classified into physicians and non …