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Title: Firing costs and capital structure decisions

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: I exploit the passage of wrongful discharge laws by U.S. state courts that allow workers to sue employers for unjust dismissal as an exogenous increase in employee firing costs. I find that firms reduce debt ratios following the adoption of these laws, and this result is strongest for subsamples of firms that experience larger increases in expected firing costs. Following the passage of these laws, firms also increase cash holdings, firms save more cash out of cash flows, and investors place a higher value on each additional dollar of cash holdings. Overall, my results indicate that employee firing costs can have an important impact on corporate financial policy decisions.

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Authors: Serfling, Matthew

Institution: University of Arizona

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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