Essays on Labor and Health Economics.
- Resource Type
- Theses
- Authors
- Jha, Stuti
- Source
- Dissertation Abstracts International; Dissertation Abstract International; 77-04A(E).
- Subject
- Economics
- Language
- English
Summary: In the second chapter I analyze the labor market outcome of foreign medical graduates (FMGs) in the US. I look at the institutional bottlenecks these physicians face to enter the US and its impact on their labor market outcome. Since all physicians have to undergo residency training to become licensed practitioners, I model the search behavior of hospitals and applicants participating in the National Residency Match Program to explain the over representation of FMGs in the primary care field. My model predicts that the probability of match for the two groups of physicians depends upon the precision of signals the hospitals receive and the weight different specialty programs place on different ability parameters of applicants.