Research Catalog

Title

Social Security Reform in Brazil [electronic resource]: Achievements and Remaining Challenges / Fabio Giambiagi and Luiz de Mello

Author

Giambiagi, Fabio.

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

Details

Additional Authors

de Mello, Luiz.

Description

22 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

This paper reviews the main elements of social security reform in Brazil since 1998 and discusses areas where further policy action is yet to be taken to ensure the sustainability of the social-security system over time. Outlays on pensions paid to private-sector workers have risen as a result of population ageing and the increase in the value of the minimum wage in real terms, to which the minimum pension is linked. Some features of existing social protection programmes, including means-tested old-age and disability-related benefits, reduce the incentives facing workers to seek social security coverage. At the same time, an expansion of the base of contributions to social security has been constrained by widespread labour informality. Further reform will therefore need to focus on options for containing the rise in social security spending while tackling labour informality so as to broaden the base of contributions.

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.534

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.534.

Subject

• Economics
• Brazil

LCCN

10.1787/353362832738

OCLC

oecd-lib-002361

Author

Giambiagi, Fabio.

Title

Social Security Reform in Brazil [electronic resource]: Achievements and Remaining Challenges / Fabio Giambiagi and Luiz de Mello

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.534

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.534.

Connect to:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/353362832738

Indexed Term

Economics

Brazil

Added Author

de Mello, Luiz.

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/353362832738 doi