'Everything was just getting worse and worse': deteriorating job quality as a driver of doctor emigration from Ireland

• Main Authors: N. Humphries (Author), A. M. McDermott (Author), E. Conway (Author), J-P Byrne (Author), L. Prihodova (Author), R. Costello (Author), A. Matthews (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Medicine is a high-status, high-skill occupation which has traditionally provided access to good quality jobs and relatively high salaries. In Ireland, historic underfunding combined with austerity-related cutbacks has negatively impacted job quality to the extent that hospital m...