Shortage or surplus: economic and noneconomic approaches to the analysis of nursing labor markets.
A study finds that noneconomic estimates of the nursing shortage are substantially higher than economic estimates. Data from the Bureau of Health Professions on counties with short-term general hospitals were used to estimate the 1985 supply and demand for full-time-equivalent nurses, using both eq...
| Publicado en: | Southern Economic Journal Vol. 61; pp. 644 - 654 |
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Southern Economic Association
January 1995
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