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_aSalkever, David S. _920067 |
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_aCost Implications of Hospital Unionization: _bA Behavioral Analysis / _cDavid S. Salkever. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. _bNational Bureau of Economic Research _c1982. |
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_aNBER working paper series _vno. w0946 |
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| 500 | _aJuly 1982. | ||
| 520 | 3 | _aThe growth of unionization among hospital workers was sharply accelerated by the 1974 amendments to the NLRA covering voluntary hospital workers. With continuing inflationary pressures in the hospital sector, the cost implications of the recent and projected growth of hospital unions is of some concern to policy-makers . This paper presents estimates of union cost impacts based on data from hospitals in the states of Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Cross-sectional regressions with data for 1975 yield positive union impacts of 3.3 percent on total costs, 4.1 to 5.9 percent on cost per case, and 6.1 percent on cost per day. Re-estimation of the model with data on changes over the 1971 -75 period yields similar results. We also find that the cost impact of unionization varies with the pattern of coverage (being lower for service employees and RN's) and with the extent of cost-based reimbursement. This suggests that future cost impacts of union growth may be moderated as prospective payment systems for hospital s become more widespread. | |
| 530 | _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers | ||
| 538 | _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. | ||
| 538 | _aMode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
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_aH - Public Economics _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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_aJ - Labor and Demographic Economics _2Journal of Economic Literature class. |
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| 710 | 2 | _aNational Bureau of Economic Research. | |
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_aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) _vno. w0946. |
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| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w0946 |
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_yAcceso en línea al DOI _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0946 |
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