This paper analyzes the personnel expenditures in the Brazilian federal civil public service using administrative records from the Executive Branch. There are two contributions which are noteworthy because they may improve the understanding of policy makers regarding the evolution of those...

This paper analyzes the personnel expenditures in the Brazilian federal civil public service using administrative records from the Executive Branch. There are two contributions which are noteworthy because they may improve the understanding of policy makers regarding the evolution of those...

This work identifies the existence of economies of scale and scope for the Brazilian complementary pension funds via quantitative tests on the administrative data base. It will be presented the literature review, descriptive statistics of the data base; a theoretical model on the existence of...

Rural workers in Brazil can access old-age pensions five years earlier than urban workers. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether unifying the ages of eligibility among these groups (a measure proposed in the last failed pension reform) makes sense from a comparative perspective, and...

It is almost a consensus that the ongoing transformations in the Brazilian demographic structure press for urgent changes in the current social security rules as the objective of guaranteeing the actuarial balance of the national pension system. It is therefore important to predict the impact of...

This work identifies the existence of economies of scale and scope for the Brazilian complementary pension funds via quantitative tests on the administrative data base. It will be presented the literature review, descriptive statistics of the data base; a theoretical model on the existence of...

Rural workers in Brazil can access old-age pensions five years earlier than urban workers. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether unifying the ages of eligibility among these groups (a measure proposed in the last failed pension reform) makes sense from a comparative perspective, and...

It is almost a consensus that the ongoing transformations in the Brazilian demographic structure press for urgent changes in the current social security rules as the objective of guaranteeing the actuarial balance of the national pension system. It is therefore important to predict the impact of...