Recent research on nurse employment decisions.Economists at Iowa State University Academics ISU is best known for its degree programs in science, engineering, and agriculture. ISU is also home of the world's first electronic digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer. have recently completed survey work and an analysis of the Iowa Registered Nurse License Database to quantify Quantify - A performance analysis tool from Pure Software. the influence of wages, benefits, family responsibilities, commuting time, and family income on the decisions of Registered Nurses to work in the nursing field and to maintain their licenses. The work, "Wages, benefits, hours, commuting time, and license renewal for Iowa Registered Nurses," was completed in September 2006 and is available online at http://www.econ.iastate.edu/research/webpapers/paper_12 681_06030.pdf This work follows a 2005 study, "Expected wages and other labor market labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience factors affecting the labor force decisions of nurses in the state of Iowa," which is available at http://www.econ.iastate.edu/research/webpapers/paper_12470_05029.pdf In addition to work on the labor force decisions of nurses, Iowa State University economists have also recently conducted studies on hospital utilization hospital utilization The usage rate of a particular health care facility; a group of statistics referring to a population's use of hospital services , market areas, and patient choice and the local economic importance of health care enterprises. These studies are available at "Preliminary investigations of hospital geography and patient choice in Iowa," at http://www.econ.iastate.edu/research/webpapers/paper_12630_06023.pdf and "Health care employment and income impacts on the economy of Iowa counties Iowa County is the name of two counties in the United States:
All of this research was undertaken with the help of funding provided through the Iowa Department of Public Health. If you have any questions or comments concerning these works, or interest in replicating these efforts for other areas, feel free to contact me at Mark Imerman Department of Economics Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa, about 30 miles north of Des Moines in Story County. It is the principal city of the 'Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses all of Story County, Iowa and which, when combined with the 50011 515.294.5781 Imerman@iastate.edu |
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