The Rise of Healthcare Jobs

Joshua Gottlieb, Neale Mahoney, Kevin Rinz and Victoria Udalova

No 33583, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Healthcare employment has grown more than twice as fast as the labor force since 1980, overtaking retail trade to become the largest industry by employment in 2009. We document key facts about the rise of healthcare jobs. Earnings for healthcare workers have risen nearly twice as fast as those in other industries, with relatively large increases in the middle and upper-middle parts of the earnings distribution. Healthcare workers have remained predominantly female, with increases in the share of female doctors offsetting increases in the shares of male nurses and aides. Despite a few high-profile examples to the contrary, regions experiencing manufacturing job losses have not systematically reinvented themselves by pivoting from ``manufacturing to meds.''

JEL-codes: I11 J21 J31 J44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-03
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