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A Erosão Drástica da Segurança de Rendimento na Reforma em Portugal: O Efeito Cumulativo dos Ajustamentos Incrementais

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  • Maria Clara Murteira

    (Univ Coimbra, CeBER, Faculdade de Economia)

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This article analyses the path of reforms of the Portuguese public pension system that started around 2000. It identifies a radical transformation of the objectives and instruments of pension policy, the organizing principles of the system and the conception of rights. Public provision of retirement income is gradually but drastically reduced, implying the progressive transfer of responsibility and risk to individuals. In order to explain how radical institutional change was achieved keeping society “anesthetised”, despite the apparent stability of policies, a reference is made to the political processes of reforms (strategies that avoid opposition and legitimation discourses) and to the use of automatic adjustment mechanisms (instru-ments that contribute to the de -politicization of pension cuts because they reduce spending without requiring legislative changes).

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  • Maria Clara Murteira, 2020. "A Erosão Drástica da Segurança de Rendimento na Reforma em Portugal: O Efeito Cumulativo dos Ajustamentos Incrementais," Notas Económicas, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, issue 50, pages 43-62, Julho.
    • Handle: RePEc:gmf:journl:y:2020:i:50:p:43:62
    DOI: 10.14195/2183-203X_50_4
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    Keywords

    Social security; pensions; pension reforms; political economy.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State

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