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Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts

Currie, Janet - 2003

This paper uses data from the 1990s to examine changes in the wages, employment, and effort of nurses in California hospitals following takeovers by large chains. The market for nurses has been described as a classic monopsony, so that one might expect increases in firm market power to be...

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Human Capital and Organizational Performance : Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

Bartel, Ann P. - 2011

use detailed longitudinal monthly data on nursing units in the Veterans Administration hospital system to identify how the … human capital (general, hospital-specific and unit or team-specific) of the nursing team on the unit affects patients …

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The Effect of Hospital Nurse Staffing on Patient Health Outcomes : Evidence from California's Minimum Staffing Regulation

Cook, Andrew - 2010

mandated minimum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already had … acceptable staffing levels, while others had nurse staffing ratios that did not meet mandated standards. Thus changes in hospital …

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Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State

Gruber, Jonathan - 2010

Concerns over the impacts of hospital strikes on patient welfare led to substantial delay in the ability of hospitals ….S. economy. Were the original fears of harmful hospital strikes realized as a result? In this paper we analyze the effects of … 2004 period in New York State, and match these strikes to a restricted use hospital discharge database which provides …

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Is There Monopsony in the Labor Market? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Staiger, Douglas - 1999

A variety of recent theoretical and empirical advances have renewed interest in monopsonistic models of the labor market. However, there is little direct empirical support for these models, even in labor markets that are textbook examples of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at...

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Capacity Constraints and the Provision of Public Services : The Case of Workers in Public Health Clinics

Harris, Matthew C. - 2019

Unlike in the production of most goods, changes in capacity for labor-intensive services only affect outcomes of interest insofar as service providers change the way they allocate their time in response to those capacity changes. In this paper, we examine how public sector service providers...

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Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition : The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities

Cutler, David M. - 2020

patient's expected profitability to a SNF increases the probability that a hospital self-refers that patient (i.e., to a co …

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Mergers and Quality Provision in Healthcare : Evidence from Nursing Homes

Chatterji, Pinka; Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Wenqing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper tests whether mergers between nursing home chains and independent facilities affect quality of care using facility-level data from 1999-2019. Staggered difference-in-differences estimates suggest that acquired facilities experience a 5% reduction in health deficiency citations 2 years...

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The Evolution of Work

Mobius, Markus - 2006

The division of labor first increased during industrialization and then decreased again after 1970 as job roles have expanded. We explain these trends in the organization of work through a simple model where (a) machines require standardization to exploit economies of scale and (b) more...

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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