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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482523
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469275
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461185
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465966
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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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Integration and Task Allocation : Evidence from Patient Care
David, Guy - 2011
predictions of the model, using a large and rich patient-level dataset on hospital discharges to nursing homes and home health …
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Broadening Focus : Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry
Clark, Jonathan R. - 2011
empirical context of cardiovascular care within hospitals, we first examine the relationship between a hospital's level of … complementarities to examine: (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly … impacts performance on cardiovascular patients (positive spillovers) and (2) whether the marginal benefit of a hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461721
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Measures of Participation in Global Value Chains and Global Business Cycles
Wang, Zhi - 2017
This paper makes two methodological contributions. First, it proposes a framework to decompose total production activities at the country, sector, or country-sector level, to different types, depending on whether they are for pure domestic demand, traditional international trade, simple GVC...
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