The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses’ labour supply in Great Britain

Rowena Crawford, Richard Disney () and Carl Emmerson ()
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Richard Disney: Institute for Fiscal Studies and University of Sussex
Carl Emmerson: Institute for Fiscal Studies and Institute for Fiscal Studies

No W15/04, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: The paper investigates the short run responsiveness of National Health Service (NHS) nurses’ labour supply to changes in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. We find the short run responsiveness of NHS nurses’ labour supply to the relative wage of NHS nurses is positive and statistically significant, albeit economically small, in regions outside the London area. In contrast, in the London region, the short run elasticity is much higher. We discuss the policy implications of these findings.

Keywords: NHS; labour supply; relative wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J38 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-02-06
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