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Improving nurse retention in the British National Health Service : the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit
Shields, Michael; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001473818
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Strategies and implications of mitigating personnel shortages in nursing homes
Heger, Dörte; Herr, Annika; Lückemann, Maximilian; … - 2023
Amidst demographic shifts, advanced economies are facing critical nursing shortages. This study analyzes strategies of German nursing care providers to address these shortages using administrative data for the period 2007 to 2017. Our analysis reveals that higher nursing shortages correlate with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466597
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Improving nurse retention in the British National Health Service : the impact of job satisfaction on intentions to quit
Shields, Michael; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2000
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326000
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The deadly consequences of labor scarcity : evidence from hospitals
Schlenker, Oliver - 2024
This paper estimates the impact of nursing shortages in hospitals on healthcare provision and patient outcomes by exploiting a strong and stable appreciation of the Swiss franc in 2011. Due to collective bargaining hindering wage adjustments in the German healthcare sector, cross-border wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015085267
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Left behind: intergenerational transmission of human capital in the midst of HIV/AIDS
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Turan, Belgi - 2010
) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … the intergenerational transfers: mother's HIV status and community HIV prevalence. First, we find that mothers transfer 37 … mother's HIV status has large detrimental effect on inheritability of human capital. HIV-infected mothers are 30% less likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006993
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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258168
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Left Behind : Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2010
) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … the intergenerational transfers: mother's HIV status and community HIV prevalence. First, we find that mothers transfer 37 … mother's HIV status has large detrimental effect on inheritability of human capital. HIV-infected mothers are 30% less likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138271
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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E. - 2014
While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056645
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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment : The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy
Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2011
-2006, we find prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012714151
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Maternal Stress and Offspring Lifelong Labor Market Outcomes
Atella, Vincenzo; Di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315275