'Stickiness' and 'inflow' as proxy measures of the relative attractiveness of various sub-sectors of nursing employment

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2310-2319

  Alameddine, Mohamad ^a   Laporte, Audrey ^a   Baumann, Andrea ^a   O'Brien Pallas, Linda ^a   Mildon, Barbara ^a   Deber, Raisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Employment sectors sub sectors; Nursing; Recruitment; Retention; Staff shortage; Turnover; Workplace attractiveness

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PROBABILITY; RECRUITMENT; WORKPLACE;

ARTICLE; CANADA; DATA BASE; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYMENT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; NURSING; REGISTER; STAFF; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NURSES; ONTARIO; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; PERSONNEL SELECTION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

EID: 33748560528     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.05.014     Document Type: Article

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