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Medical Brain Drain – Assessing the Role of Job Attributes and Individual Traits

Marco Bertoni, Debdeep Chattopadhyay and Yuanyuan Gu ()
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Yuanyuan Gu: Macquarie University, Sydney

No 16243, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study physicians' migration intentions by undertaking a Discrete Choice Experiment with senior Italian medical students. Using the mixed logit models, we estimate how much income students are willing to forego for various job characteristics, including the job location. We find that future doctors are willing to sacrifice €13,500/year on average to remain in their home country. Those with higher willingness to take risks, competitiveness, cognitive skills and altruism levels are more likely to migrate abroad, with implications for the quality of future doctors remaining in their home country. Furthermore, the valuations of several job characteristics differ substantially for jobs located in the home country or abroad, informing the design of job contracts that shall help retain young doctors.

Keywords: brain drain; medical workforce; job design; personality traits; discrete choice experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F66 I18 J08 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 60 pages
Date: 2023-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm, nep-eur, nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-mig
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