Physician Labour Supply in Canada: a Cohort Analysis

Thomas Crossley (), Jeremiah Hurley and Sung-Hee Jeon

Department of Economics Working Papers from McMaster University

Abstract: This paper employs cohort analysis to examine the relative importance of different factors in explaining changes in the number of hours spent in direct patient care by Canadian general/ family practitioners (GP/FPs) over the period 1982 to 2002. Cohorts are defined by year of graduation from medical school. The results for male GP/FPs indicate that: there is little age effect on hours of direct patient care, especially among physicians aged 35 to 55; there is no strong cohort effect on hours of direct patient care; but there is a secular decline in hours of direct patient care over the period. The results for female GP/FPs indicate that: female physicians on average work fewer hours than male physicians; there is a clear age effect on hours of direct patient care; there is no strong cohort effect; there has been little secular change in average hours of direct patient care. The changing behaviour of male GP/FPs accounted for a greater proportion of the overall decline in hours of direct patient care from the 80’s through the mid 90’s than did the growing proportion of female GP/FPs in the physician stock

JEL-codes: I11 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2006-10
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Journal Article: Physician labour supply in Canada: a cohort analysis (2009)
Working Paper: Physician Labour Supply in Canada: a Cohort Analysis (2007)
Working Paper: Physician Labour Supply in Canada: a Cohort Analysis (2006)
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