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    • The effect of social security, demography and technology on retirement 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2008-12-08
      This article investigates the causes in the reduction of labor force participation of the old. We argue that the changes in social security policy, in technology and in demography may account for most of the changes in ...
    • The effect of social security, demography and technology on retirement 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2010-10-21
      This article investigates the causes in the reduction of labor force participation of the old. We argue that the changes in social security policy, in technology and in demography may account for most of the changes in ...
    • The effect of social security, health, demography and technology on retirement 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2012-02-24
      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 ...
    • Essays in heterogeneous agent macroeconomics 

      Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2011-02-25
      This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first article studies the determinants of the labor force participation of elderly American males and investigates the factors that may account for the changes in retirement ...
    • Globalization and the Industrial Revolution 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2010-10-21
      This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution, allowing the economy to shift resources to the manufacture without facing food and raw materials shortage. ...
    • Globalization and the Industrial Revolution (revised) 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2014-06-13
      This paper argues that trade specialization played an indispensable role in supporting the Industrial Revolution. We calibrate a two-good and two-sector overlapping generations model to Englandís historical development and ...
    • The impact of AIDS on income and human capital 

      Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos; Pessôa, Samuel de Abreu
      2009-02-12
      This paper studies the impact of HIV/AIDS on per capita income and education. It explores two channels from HIV/AIDS to income that have not been sufficiently stressed by the literature: the reduction of the incentives to ...
    • Labor supply, criminal behavior and income redistribution 

      Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2009-12-01
      This paper develops an overlapping generations model of criminal behavior, which extends prior research on crime by taking into account individuals’ labor supply decisions and the stigma effect that affects convicted ...
    • Moving to a consumption-based tax system: a quantitative assessment for Brazil 

      Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos; Pereira, Thiago Neves
      2010-06-01
      For many years, it has been a primary issue in tax policy whether the tax system ought to be built around income tax or consumption tax. Much of the interest in tax policy arises from the widespread belief that taxes on ...
    • Oferta de trabalho, comportamento criminal e redistribuição de renda 

      Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2007-07-11
      Este trabalho desenvolve e calibra um modelo de equilíbrio dinâmico de crime. O objetivo É estudar e quantificar os determinantes do comportamento criminal: aparato de polícia, condições do mercado de trabalho, perfil ...
    • Optimal notional defined contributions 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2021
      Notional Defined Contributions (NDC) systems mimic the incentive structure of fully funded social security while preserving the Pay-as-you-go nature of most current systems. We study size-preserving social reforms which ...
    • Progressive Consumption Taxes 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      In a static setting, whether consumption or labor income is progressively taxed is irrelevant for household choices and welfare. In a dynamic setting, however, these two forms of progressivity have markedly di erent ...
    • Redistribution with labor market frictions 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da; Maestri, Lucas Jóver; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      How should search frictions in the labor market affect distributive policies? Can we assess current real-world policies? After building a framework for answering these questions we show that any constrained efficient ...
    • Redistribution with labor markets frictions 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da; Maestri, Lucas Jóver; Santos, Marcelo Rodrigues dos
      2017
      How does the presence of labor market frictions change optimal redistributive policies? Embedding an otherwise standard Mirrlees’ (1971) economy in a directed search environment we show that optimal Utilitarian (and Rawlsian) ...