Equilíbrio financeiro dos regimes próprios de previdência social no Brasil

Abstract

At aiming to investigate the financial balance in the Social Security System of public employees (RPPS), it is expected that the results here found contribute to the scarce empirical literature in Brazil. Following a panel data econometric modeling, by taking the 22 brazilian states in the period 2005–2011, it was approached the solvency of RPPS through a traditional methodology in fiscal sustainability under intertemporal budget constraint. In order to verify the stationarity of the series representative of the pension deficit and expenditure on the balance of active workers four alternative tests procedures were considered: Levin-Lin-Chu (2002); Im-Pesaram-Shin (2003);Dickey-Fuller (1979) e Phillips-Perron (1988). The results from the tests showed that the pension deficit present no unit root, which implies stationary series in the social security in both aggregate and individual basis. The expense series on balance of assets, in turn, was stationary only in the aggregate. Besides, It was found that that the financial balance between the two approaches is more feasible through the increase in revenue. This can give the increase in social security contribution rates of sponsors and insured. This does not exclude the need for pension reforms to bring advances to the financial balance of RPPS.