Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Somers, Melline
Author-workplace-name: RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, ROA / Health, skills and inequality
Author-Name: Stolp, Tom
Author-workplace-name: RS: GSBE other - not theme-related research, ROA / Education and transition to work
Author-Name: Burato, Francesca
Author-Name: Groot, Wim
Author-workplace-name: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, RS: GSBE MGSoG, RS: CAPHRI - R2 - Creating Value-Based Health Care, Health Services Research
Author-Name: van Merode, Frits
Author-workplace-name: Faculteit FHML Centraal, RS: CAPHRI - R2 - Creating Value-Based Health Care
Author-Name: Vooren, Melvin
Title: Increasing the working hours of nurses and teachers: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Abstract: The healthcare and education sectors suffer from shortages of nurses and teachers. Extending their working hours has often been proposed as a solution to this. In this study, we conduct a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in the Netherlands to elicit nurses’ and teachers’ preferences for different jobs and working conditions. We present both nurses and teachers with nine hypothetical choice sets, each consisting of two jobs that differ in seven observable job attributes. From the DCE, we infer workers’ willingness to pay for these different job characteristics. Moreover, we calculate how many additional hours workers would be willing to work if a specific workplace condition were met. We find that both nurses and teachers most negatively value high work pressure. Spending a lot of time on patient-related tasks is highly valued by nurses, followed by having more control over working hours. Next to work pressure, teachers place significant importance on receiving social support from both colleagues and managers. Nurses and teachers who work part-time require higher incentives to work additional hours compared to full-time workers.
Classification-JEL: j45,j81,j20,j30,i10,i20
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20241114
Number: 014
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/223838524/RM24014.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 722185
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2024014
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2024014