Financial incentive and labor supply of married professional nurses: an economic analysis.
The extent to which the supply of nursing services would increase in response to higher nurse compensation and other employment inducements, as the topic pertains to married nurses, was investigated. Higher wages, it was found, probably would not be effective in providing more nursing services but would, indeed, have the opposite effect--of reducing the number of hours worked by registered nurses.
D004471:Economics, Nursing; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008393:Marriage; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D014481:United States