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Employee ownership in Defined Contribution and the Effect of the Pension Protection Act of 2006

확정기여형 연금에서의 우리사주와 2006년 연금보호법의 효과

  • Park, Heejin (School of Business, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2020.11.17
  • Accepted : 2020.12.20
  • Published : 2020.12.28
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Abstract

We posit that employee ownership through defined contribution (DC) plans results in managerial entrenchment, and then examine the effect of the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 on the relation between the employee ownership and firm performance. By conducting Ordinary Least Square regression with the data from Form 5500 over the period of 1999-2014, we find that firms with large employee ownership increase their firm value measured by Tobin's Q after the adoption of the Act. These findings suggest that the adoption of the Act has been effective to mitigate the negative effect of managerial entrenchment by decreasing the employee ownership and reinforcing the fiduciary duty of plan trustees. Given the fact that we test the effects of the diversification rule on employee ownership using firm performance, further research could aim to examine the effects of the rule on employee ownership using stock return or market reaction.

우리는 확정기여금 제도를 통한 근로자의 우리사주 소유가 경영진의 경영권 통제로부터 비롯되었다고 보고, 2006년 미국 연금보호법 제정이 근로자의 우리사주 소유와 기업성과의 관계에 미치는 영향을 살펴본다. 이를 위해서 1999년부터 2014년까지의 Form 5500 데이터를 이용해서 선형 회귀분석(Ordinary Least Square Regression)을 실시했다. 그 결과 우리는 근로자의 우리사유 소유가 높은 회사는 법이 채택된 이후 토빈의 Q로 측정한 기업 가치가 증가한 것을 발견했다. 이러한 결과는 2006년 연급보호법은 인해서 근로자의 우리사주 소유를 감소시키고 수탁자의 충실의무를 강화함으로써 경영권 통제 동기의 부정적인 영향을 완화하는데 효과적이라는 것을 시사한다. 본 연구의 결과를 기반으로 향후 2006년 연금보호법 제정이 근로자의 우리사주 소유와 주식성과 혹은 시장반응에 대한 연구를 진행할 수 있을 것이다.

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