Abstract
This article uses data from the government work reports of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China and 21 cities in Guangdong Province of China to perform a fixed effect regression. It was found that economic growth target constraints and economic growth target gaps between countries and provinces, or between provinces and cities have a significant impact on the quality of public occupational health. The non-linear relationship between economic growth target setting and the quality of public occupational health was then discussed in detail, and the reliability of basic conclusions drawn was ensured by robustness and endogeneity tests. The results show that the effect of economic growth target constraints and gaps on the quality of public occupational health shows a “U-shaped” trend at both the provincial and city levels, which initially promotes and, eventually, inhibits. This relationship is closely related to the current economic system reforms, administrative reforms, and social transformation in China. Therefore, in emphasising high-quality economic development, the government should fully consider the actual state of the development of jurisdictions in setting economic goals to improve the quality of public occupational health in an orderly manner.
Highlights
The purpose of this article is to analyse whether local economic growth target setting has an impact on the quality of public occupational health at the provincial and city levels
Yit represents the quality of public occupational health, targetit represents the economic growth target constraint, and target_hit represents the economic growth target gap. targeti2t and target_h2it represent the square terms of the economic growth target constraint and gap, respectively
At the provincial and city levels, when the accident rate and the number of deaths are set as dependent variables, the regression results show that the coefficient of the economic growth target constraint is positive, and the square of the coefficient of the economic growth target constraint is negative
Summary
The purpose of this article is to analyse whether local economic growth target setting (measured by economic growth target constraints and gaps) has an impact on the quality of public occupational health (measured in reverse by the death rate of 100 million yuan of GDP of occupational safety accidents and the number of occupational safety accident deaths) at the provincial and city levels. In 2007, there was still a large gap between China and developed countries in terms of the number of deaths caused by accidents. The death rate in China of 100 million yuan of GDP in occupational safety accidents is 10 times that of developed countries, and the accident death rate of the country of 100,000 people in the mining and commerce industry is more than two times that of developed countries. It can be said that public occupational health management in China is at a relatively low level
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