We study how ownership structure, in particular public listing status, relates to workplace safety and productivity tradeoffs. Theory offers competing hypotheses on how listing-related frictions affect these tradeoffs. We exploit detailed asset-level data in the U.S. coal industry and find that...

This study examines the impact of corporate governance on airline safety. Using data from seventy countries during the period 1990 to 2016, we observe a negative relationship between indicators of quality of corporate governance and the accident rate of an airline. Specifically, our results...

This study uses insights from the political perspective on corporate governance to investigate the influence of geographic concentration of institutional blockholders on workplace safety violations. When institutional investors who have a blockholding stake (i.e., institutional blockholders) are...

The board of directors provides overall strategic direction for the company. Generally directors are not required to become involved in the day-to-day management of corporations. With the recent amendments to occupational health and safety (“OHS”) laws, directors' duties have been expanded....

We examine how shareholder litigation affects workplace safety. To identify a causal impact, we exploit the staggered adoption of Universal Demand (UD) laws by U.S. states, which lowers shareholder derivative litigation risk. Using establishment-level injury data and a Covid-19 exposure dataset...