Open AccessDo foreign-educated nurses displace native-educated nurses?
Author(s) -
Hyeran Chung,
Mary ArendsKuenning
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iza journal of labor policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.473
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 2193-9004
DOI - 10.2478/izajolp-2020-0014
Subject(s) - workforce , harm , nursing , health care , medicine , labour economics , demographic economics , psychology , economics , economic growth , social psychology
We examine whether there is any movement in the employment of native-educated nurses due to the influx of foreign-educated nurses. To avoid conflating the short- and long-term reactions to the entry of newly arrived foreign-educated nurses, we implement a multiple instrumentation procedure. We find that there is no significant effect of foreign-educated nurses on the employment of native nurses in both the short- and the long-runs. Our results suggest that relying on foreign-educated nurses to fill gaps in the US healthcare workforce does not harm the employment of native nurses.