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 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...

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...

This paper gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the impact of the social security policy on the well-being of elderly women and their families. The importance of studying elderly women refers to their increasing proportion on the total of elderly people. This almost tripled in last the sixty years as...