This paper contributes for an initial study on the empirical determinants of the portfolio allocation of retirement savings in Brazil. To this end, the work makes use of a database with disaggregated data on the allocation profile of employees participating in the closed pension fund of a major...

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...