There has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a common facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique individual level panel of residents of...

Dieser Sammelband zeichnet durch zahlreiche Beispiele aus dem Unternehmensalltag ein Bild davon, vor welchen Herausforderungen Einrichtungen im Gesundheitswesen im Rahmen des Dienstleistungscontrolling stehen und wie sie diesen mit Ideen und wertvollen Handlungsempfehlungen begegnen. Untermauert...

This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....

There has been much debate among economists about whether nursing home quality is a public good across Medicaid and private-pay patients within a common facility. However, there has been only limited empirical work addressing this issue. Using a unique individual level panel of residents of...

Motivated by bed allocation patterns of U.S. nursing homes, we formulate a queueing network model to study nonprofit and for-profit nursing homes' bed allocation decisions and the resulting access to care for the public. Nursing homes have a fixed number of beds that can be allocated among three...