Abstract

This study finds that ESG decoupling reduces labor investment efficiency mainly by increasing financial constraints and agency costs. ESG decoupling exacerbates both labor overinvestment and labor underinvestment. And environmental uncertainty might exacerbate the negative effect of ESG decoupling on firms.

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