Recruiting and retaining dental labor in federal facilities: Harder than pulling teeth?
Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
dental labor markets
dentist
dentist earnings
Journal
Health economics
ISSN: 1099-1050
Titre abrégé: Health Econ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306780
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2019
11 2019
Historique:
received:
02
10
2018
revised:
05
07
2019
accepted:
05
08
2019
pubmed:
31
8
2019
medline:
14
8
2020
entrez:
31
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) is a large publicly financed health system that has long struggled with provider shortages. Shortages may arise at the VA because it offers different compensation than private sector employment options or because of differences in the way that labor is supplied to public versus private employers. In the mid-2000s, the VA adopted a more generous and flexible pay schedule for its dentists. We exploit this salary schedule change to study the impact of a positive wage shock on dental labor supplied to the VA, within a difference-in-differences framework. We find limited effects on VA separation and new hire rates overall-though early career dentists appear more sensitive to the wage change. More generous pay has its clearest effects on employment type for VA dentists, reducing the likelihood of being part-time by roughly 10%.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1356-1369Informations de copyright
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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