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Employment Spillover Effects of Rural Inpatient Healthcare Facilities

  • by Cristina Miller, John Pender and Thomas Hertz
  • 12/20/2017
  • ERR-241

Overview

This report estimates the share of wage/salary employment in inpatient healthcare facilities—hospitals, nursing homes, and other residential care facilities—versus other industries in rural counties during 2001-2015, and the spillover effects of additional inpatient facility employment in rural counties.

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