Although in the last decade, Brazil has experienced improvements in its major labor and social security indicators, a significant portion of the workers are still excluded from the social insurance system - group in which the self-employed workers are prevalent. In this context, the Brazilian...

The Social Security Reform Bill (PEC) no 287/2016, along with its subsequent modifications, attempts to promote important and necessary parametric adjustments in the Brazilian Social Security system, with clear focus on its social insurance pillar. Put it simply, regarding the General Social...

The employer`s payroll contribution for pension system relief has been one of the most important topic on the debate about social security. Some advocates that the traditional source of funds for pension system tends to undergo a process of erosion.And there are critics, who argue that there is...

The Social Security Reform Bill (PEC) no 287/2016, along with its subsequent modifications, attempts to promote important and necessary parametric adjustments in the Brazilian Social Security system, with clear focus on its social insurance pillar. Put it simply, regarding the General Social...

Although in the last decade, Brazil has experienced improvements in its major labor and social security indicators, a significant portion of the workers are still excluded from the social insurance system - group in which the self-employed workers are prevalent. In this context, the Brazilian...

Este artigo apresenta uma analise para o risco operacional levando em conta informações referentes aos quatro maiores bancos brasileiros. Para tanto, é feita uma breve analise do estado-da-arte sobre o risco operacional e propõe uma discussão em torno dos critérios adotados pelo Comitê de...

The purpose of this text is to consolidate the analysis of social policies that were modified by a legal reform, fostered by the government through the so-called "Medidas Provisórias" no 664 and 665, edited on 30 December 2014. The social policies analyzed in this text are pensions, wage...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of the General Social Security System (RGPS) on regional disparities in Brazil. The study examines the impact of social security on regional income distribution at different scales by means of econometric tests, and conventional measures of...

It is difficult to exaggerate the macroeconomic and political relevance of the public transfers to the private sector in the Brazilian economy. These transfers have reached 15% of GPD in the last decade. However, there are just a few papers analyzing the evolution of these transfers. Given that,...