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From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Comparable Worth -- Myth and Method
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 16:57:22 EDT
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In article <2171@ut-ngp.UTEXAS>, cgeiger@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (charles s. geiger) writes:
> But we all know that this economic theory junk *doesn't* work in
> real life!  An example that quickly comes to mind is one that
> people are always bringing up on the net--nurses:  there's always a
> shortage of nurses, but salaries never go up ...
> to attract more possible nurses.

> Charles S. Geiger
> Department of Economics
> University of Texas

That's because the nurses' employers aren't really all that
interested in running their hospitals fully staffed.  If the shortage
of nurses got to the point where it interfered with hospital INCOME
(by being so shortstaffed that they had to turn away paying
customers) things would start to turn around.

(Do you have to be a jerk to run a hospital, or does it just help?)

In businesses where the medium-term survival of the company depends
on being fully staffed with good people, supply and demand is very,
very real.
-- 


		Robert Plamondon
		{turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert