@article{11150a1b9a1043fc847714a006b09aa0,
title = "Geographically differentiated pay in the labour market for nurses",
abstract = "This novel application of spatial wage theory to health service labour markets analyses the competitiveness of nurse's pay and how this differs between local labour markets in Britain. A switching regression model is estimated to derive standardised spatial wage differentials (SSWDs) for nurses and their comparators. An SSWD gap is constructed and its relationship to vacancies estimated. A reduction in the gap in a local area is shown to result in an increase in the long-term vacancy rate for National Health Service (NHS) nurses. The competitiveness of nursing pay is shown to have a strong effect on the ability of the NHS to attract and retain nurses.",
keywords = "Nurses, Spatial wage differentials, Vacancies",
author = "Elliott, {Robert F.} and Ma, {Ada H.Y.} and Anthony Scott and David Bell and Elizabeth Roberts",
note = "Funding Information: This research is funded by a grant from the Economic and Social Research Council, award reference L219 25 2123. The Health Economics Research Unit is funded by the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Health Department. Data from the QLFS are Crown Copyright and have been made available by the Office for National Statistics. We are particularly grateful to the ONS for providing details of the LADs in which people work. We are grateful to participants at the Health Economics Study Group in Paris and in particular to Lize Rochaix for comments on this paper. The views in this paper are those of the authors. ",
year = "2007",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.jhealeco.2006.05.002",
language = "English",
volume = "26",
pages = "190--212",
journal = "Journal of Health Economics",
issn = "0167-6296",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
number = "1",
}
