Salient Gender Difference in the Wage Elasticity of General Practitioners' Labour Supply

Chunzhou Mu () and Shiko Maruyama

No 2013-16, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a growing proportion of female general practitioners (GPs) worldwide. Because female GPs tend to work fewer hours than male GPs, this continuing trend may accelerate the shortage of GPs. This paper investigates the gender difference in the wage elasticity of Australian GPs by maximum likelihood estimation of labour supply and wage equations. Quantitative information regarding the labour supply responses of GPs is vital in designing eective policies. The results show salient gender difference. An increase in hourly wage increases the labour supply of male GPs and reduces the labour supply of female GPs, resulting in an enlarged gender dierence in labour supply. The results also suggest that family factors still remain a key driving force of the reduced labour supply of Australian female GPs.

Keywords: General Practitioners; female labour supply; gender gap; wage elasticity; income effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2013-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lab and nep-lma
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