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Registered nurses: the impact of wages on labour force participation and hours worked – are wages an effective mechanism for addressing RN shortages with evidence from 1960 to 2008?

Simon CondliffeDepartment of Economics and Finance, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Charles R. LinkDepartment of Economics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
Pages 849-852 | Published online: 20 Nov 2015

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