Three essays on the labour market for registered nurses in Canada

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Critical analysis of nurses' labour market effectiveness in Canada: The hidden aspects of the shortage

“…Despite the importance of these issues, few studies have been done on the shortage in the Canadian‐nursing labour market. Existing studies have not considered the different dimensions of shortage . This one uses the shortage framework found in Goldfarb et al and discussed it in the context of the Canadian‐nursing labour market.…”

“…Existing studies have not considered the different dimensions of shortage. 5,6 This one uses the shortage framework found in Goldfarb et al 3 and discussed it in the context of the Canadian-nursing labour market. This article proposes to make a critical analysis of the effectiveness of the nurses' labour market by presenting the state of knowledge on the shortage issue and by dealing with some classical dimensions of a labour market, namely, the supply and demand.…”

Impact of individual and institutional factors on wage rate for nurses in Canada: is there a monopsony market?

“…Despite the importance of the nursing imbalance issue in Canada, few studies have been undertaken on Canadian nurses' wage. Those available, consider only individual factors such as education level, seniority, leaving aside institutional factors such as the degree of hospital competition and nurse unionization (Vujicic 2003;Buhr, 2006). This study intends to fill part of this gap; especially with respect to the institutional factors that can help to understand nurses'…”