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Labour unions and corporate pension policy

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العنوان: Labour unions and corporate pension policy
المؤلفون: Heo, Kyongsun, Pae, Jinhan
المصدر: International Journal of Applied Economics, Finance and Accounting; Vol. 17 No. 1 (2023); 50-58 ; 2577-767X
بيانات النشر: Online Academic Press
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Online Academic Press (E-Journals)
مصطلحات موضوعية: IFRS, Labour unions, Pension accounting, Pension funding ratio
الوصف: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of labour unions on corporate pension policies. Using firm-level labour union data, it examines whether organized labour mitigates the understatement of pension liabilities on the statement of financial position. Next, we examine whether union presence affects external corporate pension funding. We find that firms with labour unions tend to report smaller actuarial gains (or larger actuarial losses) associated with the remeasurement of pension liabilities, suggesting that labour unions play a monitoring role in the reporting of corporate pension liabilities and/or that firms try to enhance their bargaining power with the labour union by exaggerating their financial burden of corporate pension liabilities. We do not find that the pension funding level (the ratio of the fair value of plan assets to pension liabilities) is higher for firms with labour unions. Overall, our results indicate that labour unions constrain management incentives to understate pension liabilities, but they have limited influence on corporate pension funding decisions.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: http://onlineacademicpress.com/index.php/IJAEFA/article/view/1017/763; http://onlineacademicpress.com/index.php/IJAEFA/article/view/1017
DOI: 10.33094/ijaefa.v17i1.1017
الاتاحة: http://onlineacademicpress.com/index.php/IJAEFA/article/view/1017
https://doi.org/10.33094/ijaefa.v17i1.1017
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.4191DA1B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
الوصف
DOI:10.33094/ijaefa.v17i1.1017