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Empirically rigorous studies of nursing labour supply have to date relied on extant secondary data and focused almost exclusively on the role of pay. Yet the conditions under which nurses work and the timing and convenience of the hours they work are also important determinants of labour supply. Where there are national pay structures and pay structures are relatively inflexible, as in nursing in European countries, these factors become more important. One of the principal ways in which employers can improve the relative attractiveness of nursing jobs is by changing these other conditions of employment. This study uses new primary data to estimate an extended model of nursing labour supply. It is the first to explore whether and how measures of non-pecuniary workplace characteristics and observed individual (worker) heterogeneity over non–pecuniary job aspects impact estimates of the elasticity of hours with respect to wages. Our results have implications for the future sustainability of an adequately sized nurse workforce and patient care especially at a time when European healthcare systems are confronted with severe financial pressures that have resulted in squeezes in levels of healthcare funding.
Author(s): Eberth B, Elliott RF, Skåtun D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: The European Journal of Health Economics
Year: 2016
Volume: 17
Issue: 6
Pages: 771–785
Print publication date: 01/07/2016
Online publication date: 09/10/2015
Acceptance date: 18/09/2015
Date deposited: 12/10/2015
ISSN (print): 1618-7598
ISSN (electronic): 1618-7601
Publisher: Springer
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-015-0733-6
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-015-0733-6
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