Financing constraints and workplace safety

• Autores: Jonathan B. Cohn, Malcolm i. Wardlaw
• Localización: The Journal of finance, ISSN 0022-1082, Vol. 71, Nº 5, 2016, págs. 2017-2058
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We present evidence that financing frictions adversely impact investment in workplace safety, with implications for worker welfare and firm value. Using several identification strategies, we find that injury rates increase with leverage and negative cash flow shocks, and decrease with positive cash flow shocks. We show that firm value decreases substantially with injury rates. Our findings suggest that investment in worker safety is an economically important margin on which firms respond to financing constraints.