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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 …
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Retention of skilled workers is essential for labour-intensive organisations like hospitals, where an excessive … on employee-level payroll and staff survey records from the universe of English NHS hospitals, and estimate dynamic panel …
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medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition … Endowment in the early twentieth century. The Endowment helped communities build and expand hospitals, obtain state …. We further provide evidence on the mechanisms that enabled these effects, finding that Endowment-supported hospitals …
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Retention of skilled workers is critical for the delivery of public services in high-stakes environments such as hospital care. We study how contractual pay terms affect the retention of trainee doctors in the English NHS and the relationship between trainee doctors' attrition and hospital...
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We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...
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Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant...
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This paper provides experimental estimates of the impact of a voucher for private care within the Nordic system of universal provision of public care. The private daycare voucher acted as a significant boost for new daycare entrepreneurs to enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare...
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Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
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The universal Scandinavian welfare model offers generous tax financed social benefits. The scheme is associated with workfare elements as a targeting device to direct benefits to those considered deserving. Thereby social insurance and egalitarian outcomes are achieved while work incentives and...
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In most OECD member countries labor force attachment has increased in recent years in the 60+ group. Focus in the paper is on the development in this area in Denmark, Norway and Sweden since the 1990s. The development in the same period in the German labor market is included as a frame of...
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