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Article: Changes in hospital staffing patterns: after declining in the early 1980's, hospital employment is increasing, especially at those jobs that require the use of complex technology.
- Article from:
- Monthly Labor Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1991
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After declining in the early 1980's, hospital employment is increasing, especially those jobs that require the use of complex technology.
Kay Anderson and Barbara Wootton
Kay Anderson is an economist in the Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Barbara Wootton is an economist formerly with that office.
The hospital industry underwent a transitional period during the 1980's. Escalating health care costs led to changes in govemment-financed health care coverage, new forms of private health care financing, and growth in the number and diversity of alternate health care providers. Faced with an increasingly ...