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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities: The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins

Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different …

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GENDER AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PAY AND PROMOTION FOR NHS NURSES

Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...

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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession

Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

’ intentions to quit their job. These findings have important policy implications for retaining qualified nursing staff in the …

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Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes

Hirsch, Barry; Schumacher, Edward J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis … shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those received by other college-educated women. This … from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET). Nursing jobs require higher levels of skills and more difficult working …

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The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855–1860

Pritchett, Jonathan B.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

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. …

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Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms

Maré, Dave C.; Sanderson, Lynda; Fabling, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines remuneration and labour mobility patterns among workers in foreign-owned firms operating in New Zealand. By tracking workers as they move across jobs, we document the extent of the "foreign wage premium" distinguishing between compositional factors (eg, differences in...

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the …

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A Simple Theory of Industry Location and Residence Choice

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael; Wrede, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of residences in space and the location of industry. Residences are chosen on the basis of the utility which mobile households obtain across locations. The spatial pattern of industry is...

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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically mobile. We find that home ownership hampers the propensity to move for job reasons but improves the chances of finding...

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