Wages soared, as employers competed for a scarce workforce.
The epidemic decimated the already scarce workforce, killing doctors, nurses and midwives by the hundreds.
The World Health Organization recently adopted ethical guidelines for the international recruitment of health workers to try to protect struggling health systems from losing an already scarce workforce [ 12].
Further, best use of skills is important so as to ensure services of highest quality as well as the most efficient and effective performance of the scarce health workforce.
There are also a number of clinical research projects, particularly related to HIV/AIDS in the health care system – these provide services to research subjects but also consume a significant number of the country's scarce skilled health workforce (see Figure 4).
Nursing workforce data are scarce in Switzerland, with no active national registry of nurses.
Representing only 7% of all the publications, those with specific metrics on the health workforce are quite scarce in the LAC region overall, with the exception of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru, and the initiatives of international collaborations.
Twenty Republican senators (including one supporter of the 2006 immigration bill and two backers of the 2001 DREAM Act) wrote to the president, accusing him of "an inappropriate use of executive power" and worrying about the effects of unleashing "an untold number of illegal immigrants" into the workforce when jobs are scarce.In fact, many eligible immigrants are already in the workforce.
Data on work loss due to HZ is scarce and the participation in the workforce is not high in the age group 60+.
One reason could be a demographic shift, with baby boomers dropping out of the workforce; if labour becomes more scarce, real wages will rise, at the expense of profit margins.However, other nations are in a worse demographic position.
Birth control increases economic growth because of fewer dependent children, more women participating in the workforce, and less consumption of scarce resources.
