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Title: Do Immigrant Inflows Improve Quality of Care in Nursing

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The growing healthcare needs of the baby boom generation are likely to require significant increases in the number or productivity of workers employed in healthcare industries. This paper explores how immigrants may fill these gaps given their current over-representation in certain nursing professions. First, making use of Census and American Community Survey data, we show that although immigrant inflows to a local area have no impact on the wages of registered nurses, these inflows are associated with decreases in wages in lower skilled nursing professions as well as increases in employment in these professions, consistent with a positive increase in the supply of lower skilled nurse occupations. Next, using nursing home data from the Long Term Care Focus project, we show that larger local immigrant shares are associated with fewer falls among nursing home residents and improvements in other measures of quality of care. Last, we show that this mechanism requires highly competitive nursing home markets.

Url: https://cheps.sdsu.edu/docs/seminar/CHEPS_Furtado_ImmNursingHomes.pdf

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Authors: Furtado, Delia; Ortega, Francesc

Publisher: University of Connecticut

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Migration and Immigration

Countries: United States