This paper intends to show that economic incentives can affect the decisions of self-employed people whether to join or not the Brazilian social security system using a Principal-Agent framework. Relaxation of the rules for low income workers to access social security benefits promoted by the...

From a methodological point of view, this paper makes two contributions to the literature. One contribution is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth. This new measure provides the linkage between growth rates in mean income and in income inequality. In this context, growth is defined...

As transferências do governo para indivíduos e famílias desempenham um papel central no sistema de proteção social brasileiro, representando quase 14 por cento do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) em 2009. Embora seus impactos fiscais e redistributivos já tenham sido amplamente estudados, os...