incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous …

accidents. We estimated linear models for a measure of the severity of the workplace accident. We controlled for time … unobservables at worker and firm levels.We found that workers with a temporary contract, if subject to a workplace accident, were …

between individual accident risk and wages, but only in high risk occupations. The latter relationship may downward bias or …

Australia is experiencing its largest mining boom for more than a century and a half. This paper explores, from a … national perspective, important economic differences that arise when a mining boom, such as the current one, is generated by …

mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in the last two decades. We find evidence that producing districts have … higher literacy. However, the positive impacts from mining decrease significantly with administrative and geographic distance …. The inequalizing impact of mining activity, both across and within districts, may explain part of the current social …

individual-level panel data that includes unusually detailed classifications of mining workers. We find that commodity price …