Open AccessLove, Money, or Flexibility: What Motivates People to Work in Consumer-Directed Home Care?
Author(s) -
Christopher Howes
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/48.supplement_1.46
Subject(s) - flexibility (engineering) , wage , incentive , business , demographic economics , health care , work (physics) , personal care , hourly wage , labour economics , marketing , economics , medicine , family medicine , economic growth , management , engineering , microeconomics , mechanical engineering
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of wages and benefits (relative to other jobs available to workers), controlling for personal characteristics, on the recruitment and retention of providers working in a consumer-directed home care program.
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