Administrative panel data on NSW nurses covering the 90s are used to address several trends in the nursing workforce: the attrition and ageing of nurses, the hours of work in nursing, the allocation of the nursing workforce across job premises in particular across the public and private sectors, and the effects of personal, job and other characteristics on retention in nursing. Findings include: evidence of ageing of the nursing workforce due to a slower entry and an increase in retention; a reduction in the proportion of full-time workers and an increase in the number of hours for part-timers resulting in no change in the average number of hours of work; an improvement in retention in all job premises especially nursing homes; and a substantial amount of year to year churning in and out of the workforce and across premises. Retention probits show very little changes over time either in the estimated coefficients or in the distribution of characteristics.
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