Hospital Employment and Local Unemployment: Evidence from French Health Reforms

Abstract: We here ask whether French local authorities respond to depressed local labour markets by increasing employment in State-owned hospitals. We use 2006-2010 panel data to examine within-hospital employment changes: higher local unemployment is associated with greater employment in State-owned hospitals, but not for any other hospital type. Our data cover a reimbursement reform introducing competition between hospitals. This reform reduced public-hospital employment, but had no overall effect on the relationship between public-hospital employment and local unemployment. Further analysis shows that this continuing relationship is only found in higher unemployment areas, where public-hospital employment remained counter-cyclical.

Keywords: Hospitals; Competition; Public Employment; Unemployment; D21; D72; I18; J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08
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