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Efficiency and Well-being at Work – with Knowledge Towards Balanced Work

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  • Kuusi, Tero
  • Kulvik, Martti
  • Härmä, Mikko
  • Ropponen, Annina

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This project investigated how register data on daily working hours and hospital patients can be used to measure the workload of healthcare personnel and to study its relationship with different work features. We used econometric analysis to measure the average labor requirement of different patient mixes in hospital wards. The data was used to analyze the overall difficulty of working days and it was then compared to the available nursing workforce. Finally, we assessed the effects of variation in the workload on well-being at work. We found that the variation in workload was related to surprising changes in work and in the availability of employees. The risk of short sick leave increased over the next week due to the high workload. We also examined the interactions between workload and the working time features for work shift planning.

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  • Kuusi, Tero & Kulvik, Martti & Härmä, Mikko & Ropponen, Annina, 2023. "Efficiency and Well-being at Work – with Knowledge Towards Balanced Work," ETLA Reports 134, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
    • Handle: RePEc:rif:report:134
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    Keywords

    Health care; Workload; Efficiency; Working time features; Occupational health;
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    JEL classification:

    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • J45 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Public Sector Labor Markets
    • M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General

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