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Measuring Physicians' Response to Incentives: Evidence on Hours Worked and Multitasking

Shearer, Bruce S.; Somé, Nibene Habib; Fortin, Bernard - 2018

these data to a multitasking model of physician labour supply, measuring two distinct responses. The first is the labour …

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Physicians’ Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Dumont, Etienne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the …

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Labour supply, work effort and contract choice: Theory and evidence on physicians

Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2010

We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...

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Nurses' labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins

Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2012

Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...

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Physicians' multitasking and incentives: empirical evidence from a natural experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the …

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Multitasking

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2022

This chapter reviews economic studies on multitasking in household production. Whereas multitasking or task juggling in … the workplace has been analyzed more widely, economic literature on multitasking in a household is relatively scarce. The … chapter first provides relevant measures of such multitasking activities, discusses time diary data, and presents some …

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Do ethnic minorities 'stretch' their time? Evidence from the UK time use survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

multitasking than whites, with Pakistani and Bangladeshi males spending the least time. The gap is present for both ethnic minority … males and females, although females in general engage more in multitasking. The effect is also heterogeneous across …

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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Active Commuting and the Health of Workers

Echeverría, Lucía; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022

Research has shown that commuting is related to the health of workers, and that mode choice may have differential effects on this relationship. We analyze the relationship between commuting by different modes of transport and the health status reported by US workers, using the 2014-2016 Eating...

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Family Affair? Long-Term Economic and Mental Effects of Spousal Cancer

Böckerman, Petri; Kortelainen, Mika; Salokangas, Henri; … - 2023

Emerging strands of research have examined the family spillover effects of health shocks, usually focusing on labour market outcomes. However, the results have been inconclusive and there is only little evidence on the longer term consequences of health shocks or the mechanisms behind the...

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