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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Determinants of Defined-Contribution Japanese Corporate Pension Coverage

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15530263
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Business administration
Research InstitutionNAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

YOSHIDA Kazuo  NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY, Graduate School Of Economics, Professor, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (30240279)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
KeywordsCorporate Pension Plan / Defined Contribution Plan / Incentives / Unfunded Liability / Empirical Analysis
Research Abstract

The passage of the 2001 Corporate Pension Legislations in the Japanese Diet (Parliament) has introduced voluntary defined contribution (DC) pension plans for the first time in the Japanese corporate pension system.
The paper is motivated to assess the empirical determinants of the initial decision by Japanese corporations to adopt DC plan. The explanatory variables we examine are a)the firm size in terms of the number of employees, b)cumulative pension assets in the existing defined benefit (DB) plans, c)the extent of under-funding of the firm' s existing DS plans, d)the firm' s leverage (debt/asset ratio) in its capital structure, e)profitability of the firm, f)average wages paid by the firm, g)the extent of unionization, h)the average age of workers, and i)the job turnover rate of the industry to which the firm belongs. We employ the logit model for the estimation, assessing the probability of the initial adoption on the basis of these variables. The key findings are that the likelihood of adopting DC plan increases with an increase in the firm size, as well as with an increase in the profitability of the firm, the amount of existing DB pension benefits accumulated per employee, and the firm' s debt/asset ratio. In addition, the likelihood of adopting DC plan declines with an increase in under-funding of the existing DB plan, as well as with an increase in the average age of employees. We find that it is mainly large, profitable corporations with substantial accumulated DB obligations that are offering new DC plans, in sharp contrast to the American corporate incidence of DC pension.

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2005

All Journal Article (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Determinants of Defined-Contribution Japanese Corporate Pension Coverage2005

    • Author(s)
      Kazuo YOSHIDA, Yutaka HORIBA
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of 4th Global Conference on Business & Economics, Oxford University, UK.

      Pages: 18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Determinants of Defined-Contribution Japanese Corporate Pension Coverage2005

    • Author(s)
      Kazuo Yoshida, Yutaka Horiba
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of 4th Global Conference on Business & Economics, Oxford University, UK

      Pages: 18

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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