TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sayli, Melisa
AU  - Moscelli, Giuseppe
AU  - Blanden, Jo
AU  - Bojke, Chris
AU  - Mello, Marco
        TI  - Do Non-monetary Interventions Improve Staff Retention? Evidence from English NHS Hospitals
        PY  - 2022/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15480
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15480
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - labor supply
KW  - workforce retention
KW  - non-monetary incentives
KW  - hospital care
KW  - staggered difference-in-differences
        ER  -