Moura, Rodrigo Leandro de; Filho, Jaime de Jesus; … - In: Applied Economics Letters 20 (2013) 7, pp. 631-637
One of the reasons for the existence of social security systems is that they function as an income redistribution mechanism (Diamond, 1977). Nevertheless, there is no obvious consensus about this social security property. We test it to the Brazilian case and try to answer an additional question:...