Do foreign-educated nurses displace native-educated nurses?
- Authors
- Type
- Published Article
- Journal
- IZA Journal of Labor Policy
- Publisher
- Sciendo
- Publication Date
- Nov 13, 2020
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.2478/izajolp-2020-0014
- Source
- De Gruyter
- Keywords
- License
- Green
Abstract
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.