Is healthcare employment recession proof? We examine the hypothesis that healthcare employment is stable across the … employment responds to recessions, and show that this response depends largely on the type of the exogenous shock triggering the … recession. We find that healthcare employment responds procyclically to demand-induced recessions; and the reduction is driven …

Economists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of … disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment … has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for …

Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource (HHR) migration, the empirical dimension of the health …-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world …. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering levels in many parts of the globe. This paper complements existing …

This study analyses recent trends in the mobility of health professionals in Europe. It first identifies the drivers of … affected by these recent movements of health professionals. Our analysis focuses specifically on the patterns of mobility among … picture of how the pattern of supply and demand for health professionals has changed over the past decade, illustrating the …

This paper explores the relationships between the growth in the medical workforce in an aging society and employment in … other sectors of the economy, based on data from the United States since 1985. Employment in medical services grew, but did … not displace employment in other sectors uniformly. Instead, regression analysis shows that medical workforce growth …