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]

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

Nova Economia, 2007, vol. 17, issue 3, pages 363-394

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: social security; informality; self-employed; labor market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J26 H26 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007

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