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Em busca de incentivos para atrair o trabalhador autônomo para a Previdência Social [Seeking incentives for self-employed people to join the Brazilian social security system]

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Marcelo Neri (EPGE/FGV)
Samantha Dart Tamm (EPGE/FGV)
Flavio Menezes (EPGE/FGV)
Leandro Kume (EPGE/FGV)

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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 Federal Constitution of 1988 provides a laboratory to test such a model. The empirical analysis, however, contradicts the expectations of the theoretical model. There is a general movement of withdrawal from the social security system yet this movement is more pronounced at the richest self-employed group. In theoretical terms, this is explained by a violation of the incentive compatibility constraints. One possible explanation is that the increase in the availability of private pension funds in the market has created competition for the government system.

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Article provided by Economics Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil) in its journal Nova Economia.

Volume (Year): 17 (2007)
Issue (Month): 3 (September-December)
Pages: 363-394
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Keywords: social security; informality; self-employed; labor market;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
J26 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Retirement; Retirement Policies
H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion
H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions

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