Economics foundations of the participation of Minas South in the construction of the Brazilian State among the years 1822-1840 ? This article intends to analyze the economic foundations of the south-economic elite politics participation when the Brazilian National State was being constituted,...

O artigo propõe tratar de duas questões. Em primeiro lugar, busca uma aproximação entre Raymundo Faoro e Celso Furtado. Especificamente em relação ao atraso econômico brasileiro, ambos autores atestam que são as “classes dirigentes" que ao elaborarem estratégias de superação do...

This paper aims to estimate the distributional effects of Social Security, among Brazilian regions, addressing two aspects: transfers between individuals of the same cohort but of different regions, i.e., cross-subsidies to consider the benefits and contributions made over life cycle, and...

In this paper, we calculate the necessary payroll tax to reach the financial equilibrium of the retirement system for formal workers in the private sector in Brazil (INSS). Such an exercise allows us to identify the formal employees who contribute to the increase of the INSS deficit. Although we...

Neste artigo são quantificados os impactos de algumas reformas paramétricas no Regime Geral de Previdência Social (RGPS). Nas reformas estudadas foram modificados o tempo de contribuição necessário, a idade de aposentadoria e a duração da transição para o novo regime. Também foram...

No presente artigo defende-se a necessidade de atribuir um papel central à função social dos sistemas de pensões no processo de formulação de políticas neste domínio, avaliando os efeitos das medidas adoptadas sobre os níveis de rendimento garantidos. Seguindo esta linha argumentativa,...

This article presents a reform proposal of Brazil's pension system. The new system is based on the principles of actuarial fairness, incentive to formalization, universalization and simplification of the social security structure. We calculated the balancing contribution rate to the system. The...

This article analyzes the financial equilibrium of the retirement system for public servants in Brazil. After defining the theoretical model, the strategy of analysis consists in the estimate for each public servant in the PNAD-IBGE, the necessary payroll tax to finance the expected benefits. It...

This paper starts with a review of the three demographic components, stressing the decline in fertility, with the possibility of reaching below replacement fertility. Studies on new trends in Brazilian out migration are considered relevant for future research. The demography of compositional...

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...