The COVID-19 pandemic has upended health and living standards around the world. This article provides an interim …-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

The findings vary by industry. In coal mining large employers followed a defensive strategy, limiting the breadth of …

-level data in the U.S. coal industry and find that workplace safety deteriorates dramatically under public firm ownership …

labor market -- nonunionized Kentucky coal mines in the later 70s -- a labor market which is likely to be particularly …

Underground coal mining is a dangerous industry where the regulatory state may impose tradeoffs between productivity …

of increasing safety rather than production. We study the U.S. metals mining sector, leveraging exogenous demand shocks …

health insurance, pension coverage, dental insurance, vacation pay, and training/educational benefits) and working conditions …

We estimate the role of firms in worker health care utilization. Using linked administrative data on Austrian workers … utilization in a setting with non-employer provided universal health care. We find that firms are responsible for nearly 30 … percent of the variation in across-worker health care expenditures. Effects are not driven by changes in geography or industry …