ESG disclosure and labour investment efficiency

IF 1.2 Q3 ECONOMICS

Research in Economics Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI:10.1016/j.rie.2025.101060

Paulo Pereira da Silva , Isabel Vieira

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Abstract

This study examines the impact of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure on firms’ labour investment efficiency. Our results indicate that such impact is positive. ESG disclosure is more effective in curtailing over-hiring and when over-investment in physical capital is high. The uncovered positive association is mainly fuelled by the volume of social and governance disclosure (environmental disclosure barely affects labour investment efficiency), and is more pronounced for firms with a weaker corporate social responsibility performance. The results from the empirical analysis survive a battery of robustness tests, including the use of alternative measures to capture labour investment efficiency, different control variables in regression models, and controlling for endogeneity in ESG disclosure. Our analysis and findings are novel to the literature and contribute to ongoing debates about the impact of ESG disclosure on firms’ performance and about potential benefits and costs of mandatory disclosure.

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Research in Economics ECONOMICS-

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1.40

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89 days

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