Location of health professionals: the supply side.

Autor/inn/en	Goodman, Allen C.; Smith, Brent C.
Titel	Location of health professionals: the supply side. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Standort von medizinischen Fachkräften: die Angebotsseite.
Quelle	In: Regional science & urban economics, 68 (2018) January, S. 148-159 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0166-0462; 1879-2308
DOI	10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.10.007
Schlagwörter	Cluster; Gesundheitswesen; Region; Ballungsraum; USA; Lohnhöhe; Ballungsraum; Region; Gesundheitswesen; Cluster; Einkommenseffekt; Lohnhöhe; Arbeitskräfteangebot; Gesundheitsberuf; Regionaler Vergleich; Regionalverteilung; USA
Abstract	"Urban/regional economic analyses help explain several features of health service providers including output determination. Spatial agglomerations increase factor productivity, and therefore rents paid and wages earned. Larger agglomerations imply higher rents and wages, justifying the clustering of health professionals in large cities and medical centers. We show for 372 US Metropolitan Statistical Areas (2013) that health professionals' wages increase significantly with increased total employment, but fall as the proportion of the total labor force comprised by the sectors within the regional economy increases. Rents respond similarly, although with smaller elasticities. The wage-rental ratio (W/R) decreases with total regional employment, but increases with jobs per thousand in the health sector. Exogenous factors like heating and cooling degree days are consistent with slight positive increases in the W/R. Inclusion of W/R in a model that accounts for the covariance of wages and rents yields supply elasticities from + 3.47 to + 7.20 for all medical providers, and from + 0.22 to + 0.43 for registered nurses. These interregional elasticities (particularly for nurses) are consistent with estimates in other contexts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/3