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

Shields, Michael A. - 2000

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

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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262680

Gender and racial discrimination in pay and promotion for NHS nurses

Pudney, Stephen; Shields, Michael A. - 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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Underpaid or overpaid? Wage analysis for nurses using job and worker attributes

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 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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Nurses' labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins

Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2012

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

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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit

Shields, Michael A.; Ward, Melanie E. - 2000

In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...

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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

There is currently a worldwide shortage of registered nurses, driven by large shifts in both the demand for and supply of nurses. Consequently, various policies to increase the recruitment and retention of nurses are under discussion, in particular, the role that wage increases might have in...

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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860

Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 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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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 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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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 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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