The attractiveness of jobs in the German care sector: results of a factorial survey.
Factorial survey
Job choice
Labour supply
Nurse
Journal
The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
ISSN: 1618-7601
Titre abrégé: Eur J Health Econ
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101134867
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
12
04
2021
accepted:
11
02
2022
pubmed:
19
3
2022
medline:
19
11
2022
entrez:
18
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The skilled labour shortage in nursing is an issue not unique to Germany. Unattractive characteristics of nursing jobs are one reason for the low supply in nursing personnel. In our study, we analyse the influence of job characteristics on the attractiveness of nursing jobs. We address this issue via factorial survey analysis, an experimental method particularly suited to assessing personal opinions and less prone to social desirability bias than standard interview methods. Around 1300 (current and former) nurses in a distinct region in Germany were asked to rate a set of synthetic job postings, each of which contained information on 9 systematically varied job characteristics. We find that, first, attractiveness of care jobs is most strongly affected by rather "soft" characteristics such as atmosphere within the team and time for patients. "Hard" factors play a considerably smaller role. Second, one hard factor, contract duration, is estimated to be among the most important job factors, however. This is a remarkable finding given that nursing occupations suffer from severe skill shortages. Third, though wage has a statistically significant influence on attractiveness, enormous wage raises would be needed to yield higher attractiveness gains than the top-rated soft factors, or to compensate for less pleasant job characteristics with respect to those factors. Last, even after controlling for other job characteristics, hospital nursing is still rated as more attractive than geriatric nursing.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35303192
doi: 10.1007/s10198-022-01443-z
pii: 10.1007/s10198-022-01443-z
pmc: PMC9666336
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1547-1562Subventions
Organisme : European Regional Development Fund
ID : FEIH_ZAFH_795924
Organisme : Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
ID : FEIH_ZAFH_795924
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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