全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w15855
来源ID	Working Paper 15855
	Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State
	Jonathan Gruber; Samuel A. Kleiner
发表日期	2010-03-31
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	Concerns over the impacts of hospital strikes on patient welfare led to substantial delay in the ability of hospitals to unionize. Once allowed, hospitals unionized rapidly and now represent one of the largest union sectors of the U.S. economy. Were the original fears of harmful hospital strikes realized as a result? In this paper we analyze the effects of nurses' strikes in hospitals on patient outcomes. We utilize a unique dataset collected on nurses' strikes over the 1984 to 2004 period in New York State, and match these strikes to a restricted use hospital discharge database which provides information on treatment intensity, patient mortality and hospital readmission. Controlling for hospital specific heterogeneity, patient demographics and disease severity, the results show that nurses' strikes increase in-hospital mortality by 19.4% and 30-day readmission by 6.5% for patients admitted during a strike, with little change in patient demographics, disease severity or treatment intensity. This study provides some of the first analytical evidence on the effects of health care strikes on patients, and suggests that hospitals functioning during nurses' strikes are doing so at a lower quality of patient care.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Relations ; Unemployment and Immigration
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w15855
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573530
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jonathan Gruber,Samuel A. Kleiner. Do Strikes Kill? Evidence from New York State. 2010.

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