Ensuring the service quality of long-term care provided through competitive markets is a major concern among the governments of OECD members. The public officials in these nations recognise the importance of care workers’ training to address this issue. However, most of them have hesitated to...

This study incorporates market-level fixed effects into an analysis of panel data from Wisconsin to assess whether competitor market share influences choices of price and quality at for-profit and nonprofit nursing homes. The measured competitive effects are quite small, both between firms of...

Ensuring the service quality of long-term care provided through competitive markets is a major concern among the governments of OECD members. The public officials in these nations recognise the importance of care workers' training to address this issue. However, most of them have hesitated to...