Política pública de previdência social e o nível de bem-estar: impacto sobre as famílias e municípios de Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Paulo Ricardo da Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/1961
• topic: Avaliação de políticas públicas; Impactos da previdência social; Previdência; Bem-estar social; Evaluation of public policies; Impacts of social security; Social security; Welfare; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO::ADMINISTRACAO PUBLICA

Social Security represents an important arena of public policy and social expenditures in Brazil, and it reaches a large number of families and impacts on society as a whole. Thus several inquiries have focused on the analysis of the pension systems from the perspective of their impacts as income transfer policies and from the perspective of their cost to society. Nevertheless, the results remain inconclusive, and the relationship between the social security and the level of welfare is still a matter of debate both theoretically and empirically. Overall, this research aims at contributing to the assessment of the pension system in order to investigate whether it is configured as a mechanism to promote welfare for families and small municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais (MG). To achieve this aim we seek to answer the following research questions: Could the benefit paid by social security be an impact on the level of welfare of families of MG? What is the relationship between the benefits offered by social security and the efficiency in generating welfare among the small municipalities of MG? The choice in carrying out this research in Minas Gerais state is due to its wide regional disparities in comparison to the other Brazilian states. Furthermore, MG has the highest number of municipalities from the Brazilian states, representing approximately 15% of Brazilian municipalities. To evaluate the impact of pensions on the welfare of the families in Minas Gerais sate, the research used the data from the Household Sample Survey (2009), which adopts a quasi-experimental method of impact assessment known as Propensity Score Matching. In our findings, it was identified that the income from pensions have positive impacts on the per capita family income, on the access to knowledge and conditions of housing. In general, these effects tend to be more expressive on families of lower income ranges. To analyze the relationship between social security and efficiency in the generation of welfare among small municipalities, the survey took a sample of 675 municipalities of the state having less than 20,000 inhabitants each. The study combines five different data sources and comprises information of a six year period (2000 and 2005 to 2009). The data analysis was performed using the technique of Data Envelopment Analysis in two stages. In the first stage we analyzed the efficiency of the municipality in generating the welfare, and in the second one we sought to evaluate the effects of the conditioning factors such efficiency highlighting the social security. In contrast with the more developed regions, the findings pointed out that municipalities of less developed regions tend to present lower performance in promoting welfare. Regarding the effects of social security benefits on municipal efficiency, the results confirm social security as an important mechanism to promote welfare, affecting positively the efficiency of the municipalities surveyed. Therefore, unlike most studies, the Brazilian social security system, mainly RGPS, conforms with a good mechanism in promoting social welfare.