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The Rise And Impact Of Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants On Their Own And Cross-Occupation Incomes

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"There has been a dramatic increase in the authority granted to nurse practitioners (NP) and physician assistants (PA). This "expanded" authority has changed who can provide health-care services and has weakened the control physicians have traditionally held over the provision of medical services. These changes in regulation have varied by occupation, state, and year and provide variation that can be exploited to empirically measure the individual and collective impacts of changes in NP authority and PA authority on practitioner incomes. It is found that changes in NP and PA regulatory authority do impact the labor markets of all three practitioner categories. NPs having greater practice authority brings physician incomes down, has differential impacts on PA incomes, and improves their own earnings, other factors held constant. PAs having increased authority has a downward effect on NP earnings, a positive impact on physician income, and little impact on their own incomes." ("JEL" I18, J18, J44, H75) Copyright (c) 2009 Western Economic Association International.

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  • John J. Perry, 2009. "The Rise And Impact Of Nurse Practitioners And Physician Assistants On Their Own And Cross-Occupation Incomes," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 27(4), pages 491-511, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:coecpo:v:27:y:2009:i:4:p:491-511
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    1. Timmons, Edward Joseph, 2017. "The effects of expanded nurse practitioner and physician assistant scope of practice on the cost of Medicaid patient care," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 121(2), pages 189-196.
    2. Morris M. Kleiner, 2016. "Battling over Jobs: Occupational Licensing in Health Care," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 106(5), pages 165-170, May.

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    JEL classification:

    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy
    • J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare

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