Abstract
Does organizational ownership matter for employees? We conducted a discrete choice experiment to reveal employees’ objectives in for-profit, nonprofit and governmental nursing homes. The results indicate that differences in objectives among nursing home staff are at least partially related to differences in ownership type. More specifically, we find that employees of public nursing homes are less extrinsically motivated than their for-profit and nonprofit counterparts. However, the results also show that employees of for-profit, nonprofit and governmental nursing homes are trading off output quality and output quantity differently, in line with the view that public providers of elderly care are pursuing a supplier-of-last-resort objective function.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2500-2513 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Applied Economics |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 24 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- discrete choice experiment
- mixed logic
- nursing homes
- ownership
- nonprofit