Labor investment efficiency: a review of the international literature

A Habib, D Ranasinghe, Y Liu - Journal of Accounting Literature, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose We aim to provide a systematic literature review of the determinants and
consequences of labor investment efficiency in an international context. First, we offer a …

Labor investment inefficiency and LGBTQ+-friendliness

L Schopohl, A Urquhart, H Zhang - International Review of Financial …, 2024 - Elsevier
We study the effect of firms' LGBTQ+ friendliness on their labor investment efficiency and find
that an improvement in firms' LGBTQ+ friendliness leads to greater labor investment …

US Political corruption and labor investment (in) efficiency

H Chowdhury, T Estreich, A Hossain, J Zheng - Global Finance Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of political corruption on firm labor investment efficiency. We
find that firms headquartered in areas with higher levels of corruption have more inefficient …

Corporate sexual orientation equality and dividend payout

H Chowdhury, A Hossain, C Krishnamurti… - The European Journal …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
We examine the effect of a firm's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)-friendly
policies on its dividend payout and find a significantly positive association. We propose two …

[PDF][PDF] Natural disasters and corporate default risk

H Chowdhury, I Malik, H Sun, S Ali - 2022 - acfr.aut.ac.nz
We examine whether and how exposure to natural disaster intensity can affect a firm's
default risk. Using data on a large sample of US companies from 1994 to 2017, we …

Do CEO debt-like compensations promote investment efficiency?

W Abbassi, S Boubaker, K Chebbi… - … Journal of Business …, 2024 - inderscienceonline.com
This paper investigates how incentives from CEO debt-like compensations affect labour
investment efficiency. Using a sample of 9,644 US firms-year observations from 2006 to …