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Arthur Sweetman

Arthur Sweetman

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Political Science

D-Index
31
Citations
3574
World Ranking
1111
National Ranking
40

Overview

Arthur Sweetman is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and focuses on research that intersects health professions and social sciences. Their scholarly work contributes significantly to understanding labor dynamics and policy within healthcare systems, with an emphasis on physician workforce and healthcare professionals' working conditions.

Sweetman's research spans several key topics, including:

  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Diversity and Career in Medicine
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics

The fields of study they engage in can be categorized as:

  • Health Professions
  • Social Sciences

Subfields within these areas where they have published include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science

Arthur Sweetman's recent publications illustrate a focus on the economics of immigration related to OECD countries, the evolving physician workforce in Canada, and labor conditions in healthcare roles such as nursing. Selected papers include:

  • An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries, 2020, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économie
  • Physician workforce planning in Canada: the importance of accounting for population aging and changing physician hours of work, 2023, Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Long-term trends in the work hours of physicians in Canada, 2024, Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Multiple jobholding and part-time work among nurses in long-term care homes compared to other healthcare sectors: Evidence from Ontario, 2023, Health Policy
  • The gender earnings gap in medicine: Evidence from Canada, 2022, Health Policy

The main venues where Sweetman's work is published include:

  • Health Policy
  • Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Canadian Public Policy
  • Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économie
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Boris Kralj
  • Md. Rabiul Islam
  • Hillel Rapoport
  • Alyssa Drost
  • Andrew P. Costa

Best Publications

  • Immigrant earnings: age at immigration matters

    Joseph Schaafsma;Arthur Sweetman

  • Microcredit: What can we learn from the past?

    Aidan Hollis;Arthur Sweetman

  • The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Immigrants and Possible Causes: Update 2005

    Garnett Picot;Arthur Sweetman

  • Poverty dynamics: empirical evidence for Canada

    Ross Finnie;Arthur Sweetman

  • Making It in Canada Immigration Outcomes and Policies

    Garnett Picot;Arthur Sweetman

  • The life-cycle of a microfinance institution: the Irish loan funds

    Aidan Hollis;Arthur Sweetman

  • INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC AND URBAN ISSUES IN CANADIAN IMMIGRATION POLICY

    Hugh Grant;Arthur Sweetman

  • Microcredit in Prefamine Ireland

    Aidan Hollis;Arthur Sweetman

  • Immigrant Source Country Educational Quality and Canadian Labour Market Outcomes

    Arthur Sweetman

  • First and second generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes: a comparison of the United States and Canada

    Abdurrahman Bekir Aydemir;Arthur Sweetman;Arthur Sweetman

  • The quality of immigrant source country educational outcomes: Do they matter in the receiving country?

    Qing Li;Arthur Sweetman

  • Aboriginals as unwilling immigrants: Contact, assimilation and labour market outcomes

    Peter Kuhn;Arthur Sweetman

  • Education and Ethnicity in Canada: An Intergenerational Perspective

    Arthur Sweetman;Gordon Dicks

  • The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Education, Income Assistance, and Convictions

    William P. Warburton;Rebecca N. Warburton;Arthur Sweetman;Clyde Hertzman

  • Who Goes? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Family Background on Access to Post-secondary Education

    Ross Finnie;Eric Lascelles;Arthur Sweetman

  • Immigration: What About the Children and Grandchildren?

    A. Sweetman;J.C. van Ours

  • The portability of new immigrants' human capital: Language, education and occupational matching

    Casey Warman;Arthur Sweetman;Gustave Goldmann

  • Ontario’s Experiment with Primary Care Reform

    Arthur Sweetman;Gioia Buckley

  • Vulnerable Seniors: Unions, Tenure, and Wages following Permanent Job Loss

    Peter Kuhn;Arthur Sweetman

  • Microfinance and Famine: The Irish Loan Funds during the Great Famine

    Aidan Hollis;Arthur Sweetman

  • Gender, family status and physician labour supply.

    Chao Wang;Arthur Sweetman

  • Occupational Regulation and Foreign Qualification Recognition: An Overview

    Arthur Sweetman;James Ted McDonald;Lesleyanne Hawthorne

  • An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries

    Anthony Edo;Lionel Ragot;Hillel Rapoport;Sulin Sardoschau

  • Procyclical Skill Retooling and Equilibrium Search

    Ian King;Arthur Sweetman

  • Working Smarter: Education and Productivity

    Arthur Sweetman

  • Regulated Health Professions: Outcomes by Place of Birth and Training

    Yaw Owusu;Arthur Sweetman

  • Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada? *

    Arthur Sweetman

  • Information and Communication Technology Talent: The Skills We Need—Framing the Issues

    Ross Finnie;Richard E. Mueller;Arthur Sweetman

  • Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters?: Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada

    Arthur Sweetman

  • Is There Evidence of an Information and Communication Technology Labour Shortage in the Canadian Labour Force Survey

    Alexander Thomson;Michael Veall;Arthur Sweetman

  • WHAT IF HIGH SCHOOL WERE A YEAR LONGER? EVIDENCE FROM NEWFOUNDLAND

    Philip S. J. Leonard;Arthur Sweetman

  • Dynamic Negotiations: Teacher Labour Relations in Canadian Elementary and Secondary Education

    Sara Slinn;Arthur Sweetman

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of California, Santa Barbara
Hillel Rapoport
Hillel Rapoport Paris School of Economics
Clyde Hertzman
Clyde Hertzman University of British Columbia
Jan C. van Ours
Jan C. van Ours Erasmus University Rotterdam
David Feeny
David Feeny McMaster University
Jeffrey A. Smith
Jeffrey A. Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas Lemieux
Thomas Lemieux University of British Columbia
Pieter Bevelander
Pieter Bevelander Malmö University

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