This chapter presents a theoretical framework of the industrial relations (IR) system in China’s coal mining industry … occupational safety in China’s coal mining industry over the past 60 years, based on the secondary data on coal mining accidents … and case studies of two state-owned coal mines in a northern city in Anhui Province, China. The fluctuating occupational …

We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences an accident with 10 or more fatalities. We use a stacked … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local …

hypothesizes that the asynchronous effects of safety regulations occur as regulation needs time to become effective. Safety … hypothesis is tested by studying a provincial level aggregate panel dataset for China’s coal industry using two different models …Problem: Empirical studies on the effectiveness of workplace safety regulations are inconclusive. This study …