Analyzing Nurses’ Decisions to Leave Their Profession - a Duration Analysis

Nurses leave more often where more alternative occupational options are available. Nurses who have been unemployed and nurses who have been employed in a different field have a higher probability of leaving the occupation, whereas nurses who just finished vocational training only have a moderate propensity to leave. Female nurses leave less often if employed part time. Female nurses in part time leave even more seldom if they have children. A change in the hospital reimbursement system and introducing a nursing minimum wage during the first decade of the century did not change nurses’ occupation durations.

This paper is an outcome of the ZAFH care4care funded by the EFRE fund and the Ministry for Science, Research and Art of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Author:

Martin Kroczek, email: martin.kroczek@iaw.edu.