Empirical Study On Influence Of Market Mechanism On Coal Mine Safety: From The Perspective Of Labor Market

Safety is a top priority of the coal industry. The safety level of coal industry hasbeen developed with the development of economy since the reform and opening.Great changes also happened in China labor market, such as the growing income, theamount of labor. Due to the irreplaceable role of the workers, a study from theperspective of labor economics on the influence of the growing income on the safetylevel of coal mining industry has great significance.The Labor market makes an impact on coal mine safety mainly by two ways: oneis the income effect; the other one is compensation effect. Based on the hedonic wagetheory, it takes the influence of rural family income on coal safety level to study thereason of safety status change.Firstly, from the perspective of labor and the employer choice, this articleintroduces how the labor choose the combination of wages and security level tomaximize utility and how the employers offer security level in order to realize theprofit maximization. In addition, it introduces the process of market setting up amatching mechanism for both sides, and thus determining equilibrium wages andsafety level.Secondly, with the actual survey of12state-owned coal mines, it analyzes laborforce characteristics of the coal industry from the perspective of personnel structure,labor quality, wage level and unsafe behavior features.Again, after a preliminary analysis, it finds that the coal industry safety isaffected by income, the price of coal, small coal mine production, the governmentsafety regulation, coal mining technology and the natural geological conditions.Further, it uses the quantitative method to test the influence degree of the abovefactors on coal industry safety level, finding that when the actual income of ruralhouseholds increased by1%, mortality per million tons will decline by0.24.Throughcointegration analysis and error correction model, it finds there exists a long-termequilibrium relationship and the automatic repair mechanism among the variables.Finally, according to the results of the empirical analysis, targeted policyrecommendations are put forward.