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. …

hospital-specific trends, we find that unionized hospitals also outperform hospitals without any union election in the same 12 …We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital … unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with a successful union election outperform hospitals with …

– the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ panel data models using patient discharge and … hospital financial data from California (1999-2006). My results indicate that uninsured patients have an economically … spillover effects is increased hospital uncompensated care costs. Although data limitations constrain my capacity to check how …

The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of “classic” monopsony, while a “new … declining in markets with increased hospital system concentration. Measures of new monopsony use data on mobility to proxy …

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

Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital … 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 …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …