Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes?

Delia Furtado and Francesc Ortega

No 2216, RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM)

Abstract: This paper explores how immigrants may address nursing home staffing shortages that are likely to worsen as baby boomers age. We show that more immigrant labor leads to fewer falls, less usage of restraints, and fewer pressure ulcers among nursing home residents, as well as improvements in other measures of quality of care. Consistent with a labor market explanation, we find that immigration increases the local supply of nurse assistants – the workers responsible for hands-on care in nursing homes. Additionally, we find evidence of crowding-in of natives into the nursing assistant occupation, consistent with lower-skilled immigrants displacing natives away from informal employment in household services. Finally, we show that that immigration leads to better nursing home care quality only in competitive nursing home markets.

Date: 2022-06
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/CDP_16_22 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found

Related works:
Working Paper: Does Immigration Improve Quality of Care in Nursing Homes? (2020)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:crm:wpaper:2216

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in RF Berlin - CReAM Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin) - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CReAM Administrator () and Matthew Nibloe ().