Table 9

Human resource heterogeneity and value of cash

(1) ΔRet(2) ΔRet
Coefficientst-statisticCoefficientst-statistic
Heter  0.025(1.369)
Heter×ΔC/M  0.238(1.310)
ΔC/M0.251***(3.199)0.444***(2.772)
ΔE/M0.907***(15.593)0.906***(15.574)
ΔNA/M0.104***(2.941)0.103***(2.922)
ΔRD/M3.316***(6.851)3.344***(6.916)
ΔDiv/M2.575***(7.337)2.583***(7.359)
ΔInt/M−1.185***(−2.737)−1.163***(−2.676)
Lagged C/M0.169***(7.606)0.169***(7.592)
Lever−0.044**(−2.185)−0.041**(−2.058)
NF/M−0.003(−0.353)−0.003(−0.426)
Lagged C/M×ΔC/M−0.240(−1.214)−0.260(−1.318)
Lever×ΔC/M−0.092(−0.496)−0.119(−0.647)
Constant−0.034(−1.404)−0.014(−0.490)
Industry fixed effectsYesYes
Year fixed effectsYesYes
Observations22,61422,614
Adjusted R-squared0.0500.051

Note(s): *, ** and *** represent significance levels of 0.10, 0.05 and 0.01, respectively. OLS regression is adopted and standard errors are clustered at firm level

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