Racial/Ethnic Pay Disparities among Registered Nurses (RNs) in U.S. Hospitals: An Econometric Regression Decomposition.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To detect the presence of racial and ethnic pay disparities between minority and white hospital RNs using a national sample.

Data sources/study setting

The National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, 2008, which is representative at both the state and national level.

Study design

Cross-sectional data were analyzed using multivariate regression and regression decomposition. Differences between groups were decomposed into differences in the possession of characteristics and differences in the value of the same characteristic between different groups, the latter being a commonly used measure of wage discrimination.

Data collection/extraction methods

As the majority of minority hospital RNs are employed within the most densely populated (central) countie

SUBMITTER: Moore J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4799908 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature