This paper presents a summarized picture of the Brazilian Social Insurance System, both in terms of the system that cover workers in private sector - Regime Geral de Previdência Social (RGPS) (General Regime for Social Security) - and in terms of the various systems that cover public servants...

The base for proposals of social security policies is being able to measure the combined impact on social security of this policy itself (the endogenous variable) and the exogenous variables: demographic, macroeconomic and labor market. In a pay-as-you-go as system the Brazilian one, besides the...

Using a hedonic residential rent model for Brazil's metropolitan areas calibrated with microdata from Brazil's annual household survey, this study estimates that increasing the sense of security in the home by one standard deviation would increase average home values by R$1,513 (US$757), or...