%0 Report
        %A Sayli, Melisa
%A Moscelli, Giuseppe
%A Blanden, Jo
%A Bojke, Chris
%A Mello, Marco
        %T Do Non-monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15480
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15480
        %X Excessive turnover reduces the stock of an organization's human capital. In the public sector, where wage increases are often constrained, managers need to leverage non-monetary working conditions to retain their workers. We investigate whether workers are responsive to improvements in non-wage aspects of their job by evaluating the impact on nurse retention of a programme that encouraged public hospitals to increase staff retention through data monitoring and improving the non-pecuniary aspects of nursing jobs. 
Employing rich employee-level administrative data from the universe of English NHS hospitals, and a staggered difference-in-difference design, we find that the programme has improved nursing retention within hospitals and decreased exits from the public hospital sector. Our results indicate that a light-touch intervention can shift management behavior and improve hospital workforce turnover. These findings are important in sectors affected by labor supply shortages, and they are especially policy-relevant in the health care context, where such shortages have potentially negative effects on patient outcomes.
        %K labor supply
%K workforce retention
%K non-monetary incentives
%K hospital care
%K staggered difference-in-differences