Occupational Mismatch and Moonlighting among Spanish Physicians: Do Couples Matter?

Juan Dolado and Florentino Felgueroso

No 3419, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the monopsonistic features of the labour market of health-care professionals. This provides an interesting case study since, among all university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same type of studies.

Keywords: moonlighting; mismatch; physicians; monopsony; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J42 J44 J61 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2008-03
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Published - published in: Vázquez, P. (Ed.) La Feminización de las Profesiones Sanitarias, (2010) Fundación BBVA.

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