Titre :

Is there a ‘pig cycle’ in the labour supply of doctors? How training and immigration policies respond to physician shortages

Auteur(s) :

Chojnicki, Xavier [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Economie Quantitative, Intégration, Politiques Publiques et Econométrie [EQUIPPE]
Moullan, Yasser [Auteur]
Centre d'Économie et de Management de l'Océan Indien [CEMOI]
Institut de Recherche et Documentation en Economie de la Santé [IRDES]

Titre de la revue :

Social Science & Medicine

Pagination :

227-237

Éditeur :

Elsevier

Date de publication :

2018-03

ISSN :

0037-7856

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

Physician shortages
International migration of doctors
Medical graduates
Foreign-trained physicians

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

Résumé en anglais : [en]

Many OECD countries are faced with the considerable challenge of a physician shortage. This paper investigates the strategies that OECD governments adopt and determines whether these policies effectively address these ...
Lire la suite >Many OECD countries are faced with the considerable challenge of a physician shortage. This paper investigates the strategies that OECD governments adopt and determines whether these policies effectively address these medical shortages. Due to the amount of time medical training requires, it takes longer for an expansion in medical school capacity to have an effect than the recruitment of foreign-trained physicians. Using data obtained from the OECD (2014) and Bhargava et al. (2011), we constructed a unique country-level panel dataset that includes annual data for 17 OECD countries on physician shortages, the number of medical school graduates and immigration and emigration rates from 1991 to 2004. By calculating panel fixed-effect estimates, we find that after a period of medical shortages, OECD governments produce more medical graduates in the long run but in the short term, they primarily recruit from abroad; however, at the same time, certain practising physicians choose to emigrate. Simulation results show the limits of recruiting only abroad in the long term but also highlight its appropriateness for the short term when there is a recurrent cycle of shortages/surpluses in the labour supply of physicians (pig cycle theory).Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Comité de lecture :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Lille Économie Management (LEM) - UMR 9221

Source :

Harvested from HAL