Increasing pension participation rates through automatic enrolment: a critique of firm size
Maloney, Maureen McCarthy, Alma
Maloney, Maureen
McCarthy, Alma
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6132
https://doi.org/10.13025/23092
https://doi.org/10.13025/23092
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2016-09-01
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Maloney, Maureen, & McCarthy, Alma. (2016). Increasing pension participation rates through automatic enrolment: a critique of firm size. Paper presented at the Irish Academy of Management Conference Theme: Ireland 2016: Re-imagining business and the role of ethics, University College Dublin. doi:10.13025/S84S3S
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This paper focuses on the question: “Will automatic enrolment (AE) legislation impact on the participation rates for small firms?” We develop a model to explain why large organisations are more likely to offer pensions as a benefit than small organisations that includes background conditions and motivating factors. We also consider differences between the employees of large and small organisations. Building on the work of Willis (2013) we suggest that for large organisations voluntarily offering pensions as a benefit, the interests of government, pension providers, employers and employees are aligned leading to higher pension participation rates. However, we argue that legislation requiring AE in all firms will not be strong enough to overcome the unaligned interests of these stakeholders. Therefore, we predict that AE will not significantly improve the participation rates for small firms.
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland