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The paper investigates the short run responsiveness of National Health Service (NHS) nurses’ labour supply to changes in wages of NHS nurses relative to wages in outside options available to nurses, utilising the panel data aspect of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. We find the short run responsiveness of NHS nurses’ labour supply to the relative wage of NHS nurses is positive and statistically significant, albeit economically small, in regions outside the London area. In contrast, in the London region, the short run elasticity is much higher. We discuss the policy implications of these findings.
Authors
Deputy Director
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Research Associate University of Sussex
Richard is an IFS Research Associate, a Part-time Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Professor of Economics at UCL.
Rowena Crawford
Working Paper details
- DOI
- 10.1920/wp.ifs.2015.1504
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
R, Crawford and R, Disney and C, Emmerson. (2015). The short run elasticity of National Health Service nurses’ labour supply in Great Britain. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/short-run-elasticity-national-health-service-nurses-labour-supply-great-britain (accessed: 26 April 2024).
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