Health workforce remuneration: Comparing wage levels, ranking, and dispersion of 16 occupational groups in 20 countries

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tijdens, Kea ^a,b   de Vries, Daniel H ^a   Steinmetz, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Donuses; Health workforce composition; Occupational groups; Ranking; Remuneration; Survey data; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874396424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-11-11     Document Type: Article

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