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...

The paper shows how to compute the elasticities of the poors head-count ratio (H) in relation to the mean income (() and in relation to the Gini index (G), assuming that the income distribution is lognormal, analysing how these poverty elasticities vary as functions of ( and G. The elasticities...

Among the problems presented by Brazilian social security, it may be observed that there are distortions in the criteria and requisites of the simple partition system. The present study is an attempt to evaluate retirement and pension contributions to the inequality of the per capita domiciliay...

This article investigates, by means of the model developed for Young (1990), if the tributes direct, indirect and total in Brazil respect of the equal sacrifice principle. In all the scenes originated in the present analysis, as much the observed indirect tributes how much the total tributes...