This article search to evaluate the impacts of the General Regimen of Social Security (RGPS) on the well-being of the society and on some macroeconomic variables. The analysis will be made by means of the numerical simulation of a model of overlapping generations, calibrated to reproduce the...

This article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of the elderly and investigates the factors that may account for the increase in retirement in the second half of the last century. We develop a life-cycle general equilibrium model with endogenous retirement that embeds...