Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279077 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16379
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Excessive turnover can signicantly impair an organization's performance. Using high-quality administrative data and staggered dierence-in-dierences strategies, we evaluate the impact of a programme that encouraged public hospitals to increase staff retention by providing data and guidelines on how to improve the non-pecuniary aspects of nursing jobs. We find that the programme has decreased the nurse turnover rate by 4.49%, decreased exits from the public hospital sector by 5.38%, and reduced mortality within 30 days from hospital admission by 3.45%, preventing 11,400 deaths. Our results are consistent with a theoretical model in which information is provided to managers of multi-unit organizations, who trade off coordinating decisions across units and adapting them to local conditions.
Subjects: 
labor supply
workforce retention
non-monetary incentives
hospital care
staggered difference-in-differences
JEL: 
J32
J38
J45
J63
I11
C22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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