Registered nurse labor supply and the recession - Are we in a bubble?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 366, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1463-1465

  Staiger, Douglas O ^a,b   Auerbach, David I ^c   Buerhaus, Peter I ^d  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB CHANGE; JOB FINDING; JOB SECURITY; NURSING SHORTAGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTERED NURSE; SHORT SURVEY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84859847409     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1200641     Document Type: Article

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