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Cut to the Bone? Hospital Takeovers and Nurse Employment Contracts

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Janet Currie
Mehdi Farsi
Bentley MacLeod

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Paper provided by Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section. in its series Working Papers with number 864.

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Keywords: health economics monopsony labor contracts mergers non-profit firms hospitals

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  1. Hirsch, Barry T. & Schumacher, Edward J., 2004. "Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets," IZA Discussion Papers 1154, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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