This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...

This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...

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...