Social security is concerned on easing the impact of contingencies that lead to capacity loss for generating income. There are, however, conceptual differences between genders with respect to social security contributions and benefits. This text is concerned with equality and specificity in the...

This article search to evaluate the impacts of the General Regimen of Social Security (RGPS) on the well-being of the society and on some macroeconomic variables. The analysis will be made by means of the numerical simulation of a model of overlapping generations, calibrated to reproduce the...