Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34870 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3419
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
There are relevant gender differences in the labour-market status of health sciences graduates in Spain: (i) female physicians have lower participation rates than male physicians plus they are subject to higher occupational mismatch, and (ii) moonlighting is more frequent among male physicians. In this paper we investigate whether such differences are related to the monopsonistic features of the labour market of health-care professionals. This provides an interesting case study since, among all university graduates, Spanish physicians are the ones most often coupled to partners with the same educational level and/or same type of studies.
Subjects: 
Monopsony
physicians
mismatch
moonlighting
gender
JEL: 
J42
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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