Public, private or both? Analyzing factors influencing the labour supply of medical specialists

Terence Cheng (), Guyonne Kalb and Anthony Scott ()

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 51, issue 2, 660-692

Abstract: This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where specialists choose from a set of job packages that are characterized by the number of working hours in the public and private sectors. The results show that medical specialists respond to changes in earnings by reallocating working hours to the sector with relatively increased earnings, while leaving total working hours unchanged. The magnitudes of the own-sector and cross-sector hours elasticities fall in the range of 0.160.51. The labour supply response varies by gender, doctors age and medical specialty. Family circumstances such as the presence of young dependent children reduce the hours worked by female specialists but not male specialists.

JEL-codes: I10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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