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NB-IRDT

The Employment, Retention and Exit of Publicly Employed Nurses in New Brunswick

Author: Ali Beykzadeh, Ted McDonald, Pablo Miah
Year: 2024
Category: Economy and Labour

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This study investigates nurses' recruitment, occupational retention, and mobility in New Brunswick's (NB's) public health sector from 2016 to 2022. Utilizing a linked administrative data set that includes individual-level payroll data of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, university and college graduation data and Medicare health insurance registry data, NB-IRDT researchers address three questions concerning nurses' labour market decisions and transitions:

  1. What proportion of nursing graduates from public post-secondary institutions in NB live in NB and work as nurses in its public hospitals?
  2. What factors influence nurses' decisions to leave employment in the NB public hospital system?
  3. Among the nurses who leave the NB hospital system, do they remain in NB, or do they move out of the province?