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    • Commodity Taxation and Social Insurance 

      Costa, Carlos Eugênio da
      2002
      We investigate optimal commodity taxation in a social insurance framework based on Varian (1980). We show that the tax prescriptions in this moral hazard framework are notably similar to those derive<! from models based ...
    • 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 ...
    • The life-cycle effects of social security in a model with housing and endogenous benefits 

      Luduvice, André Victor Doherty
      2014-05-29
      This article develops a life-cycle general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents who make choices of nondurables consumption, investment in homeowned housing and labour supply. Agents retire from an specific age and ...