The variables concerning workforce composition, the share of labour costs on total costs, and collective bargaining coverage derive from the firms' quantitative answers to questions asking them explicitly to provide such figures.
An extensive body of research concerned with workforce challenges has consistently suggested that to be effective, policy efforts need to address multiple challenges at setting, community and policy levels (as reviewed by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council [IofM and NRC] 2012).
The absence of regular strategic consultations with the main actors concerned with workforce planning and development opens the door to uncoordinated, even contradictory interventions [ 19].
Concerning the workforce composition, 27% of the employees are part-time workers, which is relevant as these are less likely to participate in training.
An illustration of the parts of the reform agenda specifically concerned with the workforce appears in Figure 1 (below).
Since the election (in late 2013) of a more conservative federal government, funding commitments concerned with the workforce initiatives (made by the government originally responsible for the reform agenda) have been revoked.
It also responds to the needs of decision-makers concerned by the workforce shortage in the health sector [ 11, 26], particularly those of many Quebec CSSS facing the problem of human resources shortages.
One conclusion of a growing number of case studies and policy analyses of the health workforce concerns the strategic nature of health workforce issues, in several senses.
This is followed by a critical reading of the Early Years Workforce Strategy (SCSEEC 2012), informed by research literature concerned with connections between workforce qualifications, retention and professionalism.
At present, we did not make predictions for the nurse workforce with our model, as predictions concerning the nurse workforce are difficult using our simple model that predicts workforce supply only from the number of persons acquiring a license.
