| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26401 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26401 |
| Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining | |
| Kerwin Kofi Charles; Matthew S. Johnson; Melvin Stephens Jr.; Do Q. Lee | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-10-28 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We investigate how demand conditions affect employers' provision of safety - something about which theory is ambivalent. Positive demand shocks relax financial constraints that limit safety investment, but simultaneously raise the opportunity cost of increasing safety rather than production. We study the U.S. metals mining sector, leveraging exogenous demand shocks from short-term variation in global commodity prices. We find that positive price shocks substantially increase workplace injury rates and safety regulation non-compliance. While these results indicate the general dominance of the opportunity cost effect, shocks that only increase mines' cash-flow lower injury rates, illustrating that financial constraints also affect safety. |
| 主题 | Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26401 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584075 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kerwin Kofi Charles,Matthew S. Johnson,Melvin Stephens Jr.,et al. Demand Conditions and Worker Safety: Evidence from Price Shocks in Mining. 2019. |
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