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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 a failed election in 12 of 13 nurse...
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weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different …
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The paper investigates the effects of nursing overtime on nosocomial infections and medical accidents in a neonatal … method to estimate the models. Our results show unequivocally that both health outcomes are affected by nursing overtime …
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This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes … quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects. Some evidence suggests that nursing homes in less competitive local …
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workers. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps in nursing homes. First, we show that immigrant inflows are … competitive nursing home markets is there a link between immigrant inflows and the quality of care provided in nursing homes …
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expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing … expected a greater return from nursing college (tertiary education) were more likely to enroll in nursing college later on …. This suggests that policies that increase returns from studying nursing can attract students to nursing. In addition, the …
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We analyze trends in nursing education in the Philippines during a period of rising and falling demand for Philippine … number of nursing graduates rose, resulting in brain gain. However, policies promoting the migration of skilled workers such …
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While a large literature studies the impact of exposure to early-life investment policies, this paper examines the impact of changes within a program, the Danish nurse home visiting program, on child and maternal health. We exploit variation induced by a nurse strike, which resulted in families...
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...
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Using a Discrete Choice Experiment we estimate the relative value attached by workers on core job attributes identified by previous qualitative research on the Aged Care workforce in Australia: salary (hourly); work hours; training/skill development; staffing numbers; processes for managing...
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