The demand for health care and healthcare professionals is predicted to grow significantly over the next decade … healthcare professionals and are also controversial. At issue is a balance between protecting the public health and removing …

positive and significant effects on patient outcomes while the use of contract nurses, who have less specific capital than … regular staff nurses, negatively impacts patient outcomes. Policies that would increase the specific human capital of the …

The quality and cost of care in nursing homes depend critically on the number and types of nurses. Recent research … macroeconomic conditions on demand for nurses through the effect on revenues. We test how county-level unemployment rates affect … facility size, staffing level, and profit status. We find that as unemployment rates increase, staffing by registered nurses …

Nurses comprise the largest health profession. In this paper, we measure the effect of nurses on health care delivery …

demand. The Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) was introduced to solve this problem by permitting registered nurses to practice … reduction in licensure-induced barriers alters the nurse labor market. Using data on over 1.8 million nurses and other health … care workers we find no evidence that the labor supply or mobility of nurses increases following the adoption of the NLC …