Will Increased Wages Reduce Shortage of Nurses? A Panel Data Analysis of Nurses' Labor Supply

Jan Erik Askildsen, Badi H. Baltagi () and Tor Helge Holmås
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Tor Helge Holmås: University of Bergen, Postal: Programme for Health Economics in Bergen, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Fosswinckelsgate 6, 5007 Bergen, Norway

No D1-2, 10th International Conference on Panel Data, Berlin, July 5-6, 2002 from International Conferences on Panel Data

Abstract: Shortage of nurses is a problem in several countries. It is an unsettled question whether increasing wages constitute a viable policy for extracting more labor supply from nurses. In this paper we use a unique matched panel data set of Norwegian nurses covering the period 1993-1997 to estimate wage elasticities. This data includes detailed information on 18,066 individuals over 5 years totaling 56,832 observations. The estimated elasticity when controlling for individual and time invariant fixed effects is significantly positive but not very high in magnitude. Individual and institutional features are significant and important for working hours. We have also access to information about contractual arrangements. It turns out that shift work is important for hours of work, and that omitting information about this common phenomenon will underestimate the wage effect.

Keywords: Nurses; labor supply; panel data; selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 J22 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea and nep-lab
Date: 2002-03
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