The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately experienced a relatively large number of deaths. On the basis of this observation and working with European data (from SHARE), we want to check whether nursing homes were lending...

Purpose - The purpose of the study is to create substantial awareness for safety precautions and safety parameters to lessen occupational injuries and accidents. Utilization of safety culture phenomenon with its fundamental understanding has imperative consideration for safety compliance and...

We investigate the relationship among staff engagement, job complementarities and labour supply in the hospital sector, where excessive turnover of the clinical staff (doctors and nurses) can be detrimental for quality of care. We exploit a unique and rich panel dataset constructed by combining...

This study analyses the impact of digitalisation on nursing schools. The phenomenon of digitalisation is going to reach every domain of human life - the private and the professional. This is also evident for the (long-term) care sector and its nursing schools. In this growing industry the...

We apply a novel methodological approach described by Chernozhukov, Fern'andez-Val & Luo (2018), to analyze preference heterogeneity regarding non-monetary job characteristics and trade-offs between wage and non-monetary job characteristics. Using this approach, we can describe preference...

Using a Discrete Choice Experiment we estimate the relative value attached by workers on core job attributes identified by previous qualitative research on the Aged Care workforce in Australia: salary (hourly); work hours; training/skill development; staffing numbers; processes for managing...

Durch die zunehmende Einbindung digitaler Lösungen verändern sich im Berufsfeld Pflege Arbeitsprozesse und damit einhergehend auch Aufgaben, Rollen und Verantwortlichkeiten von beruflich Pflegenden. Mit dem Pflegeberufegesetz (PflBG) des Jahres 2020 differenziert sich der Beruf zunehmend aus....

This paper studies the effects of changes in states’ scope of practice laws (SOP) for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) on individual labor supply decisions. Restrictive SOP impose costs and other barriers to practice that may affect these decisions. Using survey data on APRNs, we...

Arbeitsbedingungen in der Langzeitpflege sind, nicht zuletzt aufgrund den Personalmangel, durch hohe Belastungen gekennzeichnet. Ein großer Teil der pflegerischen Versorgung in den stationären Pflegeeinrichtungen wird durch Pflegehilfskräfte geleistet. Bislang war eine Fachkraftquote von 50...

How do pandemics affect for-profit and not-for-profit organizations differently? To address this question, we analyze optimal lockdowns in a two-sector continuous-time individual-based mean-field epidemiological model. We uncover a unique solution that depends on network structure, lockdown...

Die Studie untersucht mit Hilfe einer Sequenzanalyse den Zusammenhang von Erwerbsverläufen und Einkommensentwicklung für Pflegeberufe. Als Vergleichsberufe werden soziale und technische Berufe herangezogen. Die Datengrundlage bildet die Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien...

Policymakers have historically attempted to influence quality in nursing homes through the imposition of minimum staffing standards (MSS) and through the public dissemination of quality on websites like Care Compare. Current Federal MSS require a registered nurse (RN) on duty for at least eight...

Background: Health economic evaluation of digital nursing technologies (DNT) is important to provide information that helps avoid undesirable developments and implementations as well as increase the chances of success of developed applications. At the same time, studies and evidence on...

This is the fourth report to be published applying the ESRI's Hippocrates healthcare projection model. Previous analyses have applied Hippocrates to estimate baseline utilisation and expenditure for a range of health and social care services and to provide national projections of demand,...

In many markets there is some form of regulation; and when new policy measures are introduced into a particular sector, the question of how to structure an adequate regulatory process arises. This paper contributes to the literature by describing the approach taken in the nursing home sector in...

Aim: First aim is to measure the magnitude of stress due to COVID-19 among Healthcare workers (HCWs). Secondly, personal and professional factors associated to their psychological health will be explored. Thirdly, stress levels of front-line and second-line HCWs will be comparedMethod: This...

Using data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS)-III-2010/11 this study examines the effect of unpaid care work on the capability of care providers to earn a living and to attain tertiary education. The conceptual model, motivated by the Capability Approach, delineates contemporaneous...

This report presents results from a comparative investigation into 3 questions about three programs that mentored nurses in the delivery room in two Indian states, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh• How did these programs impact on the availability of staff and non-staff inputs, including availability...

We estimate the labor market return to an MBA, a JD, and master’s in engineering, nursing, education, psychology and social work, and thirteen other graduate degrees. To control for heterogeneity in preferences and ability, we use fixed effects for combinations of field-specific undergraduate...

The current health crisis has particularly affected the elderly population. Nursing homes have unfortunately experienced a relatively large number of deaths. On the basis of this observation and working with European data (from SHARE), we want to check whether nursing homes were lending...

A variety of recent theoretical and empirical advances have renewed interest in monopsonistic models of the labor market. However, there is little direct empirical support for these models, even in labor markets that are textbook examples of monopsony. We use an exogenous change in wages at...

Auf Intensivstationen herrscht, wie in allen anderen Bereichen der Pflege auch, Fachkräftemangel. In der Pandemie standen Intensivstationen besonders im Fokus und währenddessen haben sich dort Personalausfälle und damit Versorgungsengpässe nochmals verschärft. Auf Basis des...