Job Flows Into and Out of Health Care Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Anecdotal evidence suggests that health care employers have faced increased difficulty recruiting and retaining staff in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical research is needed to understand the magnitude and persistence of these changes, and whether they have disproportionate implications for certain types of workers or regions of the country.

Objective

To quantify the number of workers exiting from and entering into the health care workforce before and after the pandemic and to examine variations over time and across states and worker demographics.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used US Census Bureau state unemployment insurance data on job-to-job flows in the continental US to construct state-level quarterly exit and entry ra

SUBMITTER: Shen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10818214 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature