Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is …

This paper investigates the effect of physicians on infant mortality, stillbirths and the incidence of common childhood … endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the expulsion of Jewish physicians from health insurance schemes by the … control function approach. Our results indicate that the marginal returns to physicians are highly nonlinear and decreasing. …

A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The … model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of … cut moves married physicians towards full time job packages, in particular to full time jobs in the private sector. But …

are young (less than physicians), but there is also a weak tendency of higher mobility again when they are approaching … physicians). These low elasticities shadow for stronger responses, shifting labor away from part time jobs in the public and … physicians the impact is stronger. …