Orientador: Maria Teresa Miceli Kerbauy / Banca: Karina Lilia Pasquariello Mariano / Banca: Eduardo Garuti Noronha / Resumo: A Previdência Social é uma política de proteção social que está integrada ao Sistema de Seguridade Social brasileiro. O histórico do sistema e a atual situação de crise têm relevância para a ordem política, econômica e social do país. A forma como se estrutura a distribuição dos benefícios previdenciários possui nítido impacto sobre o desempenho da Previdência, sobre o bem-estar social e sobre a maneira como os agentes se comportam e interagem no sistema. Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de análise o Sistema Previdenciário brasileiro a partir da Emenda Constitucional nº. 20, de 16 de dezembro de 1998, promulgada pelo governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Este enfoque permite discutir de forma mais aprofundada a importância da questão deficitária do sistema, fortemente influenciada pelas mudanças no perfil demográfico e pela forma como se estruturam as relações no mercado de trabalho atualmente. Através de uma verificação da literatura e das abordagens existentes, de dados coletados e sistematizados pela Dataprev, pelo IBGE e pelo IPEA, procuraremos avaliar o impacto advindo com tal Emenda Constitucional, no que diz respeito à Aposentadoria por Tempo de Contribuição, tanto em relação ao seu aspecto atuarial como no que tange ao impacto social, utilizando para isso dados sobre déficit, demografia e mercado de trabalho. O objetivo é verificar a eficácia deste tipo de reforma nos temos em que se propôs, observar o comportamento dos indivíduos diante das mudanças e verificar o significado disso para o Sistema Previdenciário brasileiro. / Abstract: The Social Security is a policy of social protection that is integrated into the Brazilian Social Security System. The history of the current situation of crisis and have relevance to the political. Economic and social of the country. The way they structure the distribuition of benefits has significant impact on the performance of Welfare, on welfare and on the way they behave and interact players in the system. This research has a object of analysis the Brazilian pension system from the Constitutional Amendment nº. 20, 16 December 1998, promulgated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso‟s government. This approach allows to discuss in depth the importance of the issue of the poor, heavily influenced by changes in demographic profile and the way relationships are structured in the labor market today. Through an examination of existing literature and approaches, data collected and systematized by DATAPREV, by IBGE and IPEA, try to asses the impact that comes whit this Constitucional Amendment, with respect to Time for Retirement Contribution, both in relation to actuary as its appearance in terms of social impact, using for this data deficiency, demography and the labor market. The objective is to verify the offectiveness of this type of reform in which we proposed to observe the behavior of individuals facing the changes and verify the significance of that for the Brazilian pension system. / Mestre

Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa e à Inovação Tecnológica do Estado de Sergipe - FAPITEC/SE / The present paper proposes to analyze the reform of the Brazilian social security system. For this, the discussions were segmented into parts using as a method the bibliographic review of authors, such as: Oliveira et al. (1994), Rangel et al. (2009) and others. The first part dealt with the reconstruction of the social security system and covered Legislative Decree No. 4,682, known as the Eloy Chaves Law, homologated on January 14, 1923, until the 1954 Constitution - a period represented by the low state participation in functions of administration and management of the social security system. The second part was the cut from 1960 to 1980, showing how the centralization of the military regime and the end of the economic miracle directly influenced the financing structure of social security expenditures. In the third clipping, the effects of the Federal Constitution of 1988 on the social security system and the reforms made in the period after the promulgation of the constitution were presented, opening the space for the presentation of the fourth part, in which were presented the arguments used to deal with current Proposal for Constitutional Amendment 287/16 of the social security system, proposed during the government of Michel Temer. The fifth and last part dealt with the participation of economists in the reconstruction of the four cuts discussed above, trying to demonstrate their participation in the process of historical reconstruction of the social security system. / O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar a reforma do sistema previdenciário social brasileiro. Para tanto, as discussões foram segmentadas em partes utilizando como método a revisão bibliográfica de autores, tais como: Oliveira et al. (1994), Rangel et al. (2009) e outros. A primeira parte tratou da reconstrução do sistema de previdência social e abrangeu o Decreto-Legislativo n.º 4.682, conhecido como Lei Eloy Chaves, homologado em 14 de janeiro de 1923, até a Constituição de 1954 – período representado pela baixa participação do Estado nas funções de administração e gerenciamento do sistema de previdência social. A segunda parte foi o recorte de 1960 até 1980, apresentando como a centralização do regime militar e o fim do milagre econômico influenciaram diretamente na estrutura de financiamento dos gastos previdenciários. Já no terceiro recorte, foram apresentados os efeitos da Constituição Federal de 1988 sobre o sistema de previdência social e as reformas efetuadas no período após a promulgação da constituição, abrindo espaço para apresentação da quarta parte, em que foram exibidos os argumentos utilizados para tratar da atual Proposta de Emenda Constitucional 287/16 do sistema de previdência social, proposta durante o governo de Michel Temer. A quinta e última parte tratou da participação dos economistas na reconstrução dos quatro recortes abordados anteriormente, procurando demonstrar qual é a participação destes no processo de reconstrução histórica do sistema de previdência social. / São Cristóvão, SE

This dissertation studies the impact and consequences of possible retirement plan reforms on subjects in the Czech Republic. The first part focuses on classification of pension systems and fundamentals of the Czech pension system. Second part summarizes major aspects of the retirement plan reform. Changes in the pension system in the process of ageing of the population are highlighted in this section. Following is the fundamental part of the dissertation that will point out possible consequences of the retirement plan reform for the Czech Republic. The conclusion of the dissertation aims to discuss needs of all parties participating on the retirement plan reform and outline an optimal reform plan. This is the conflict point of the interest of the public and those of the government. However, it is a government's responsibily to act on behalf of the citizens and that is the paramount factor of the reform.

The diploma thesis is focused on area of life insurance. First part explains main role of life insurance and defines its types. It includes information about development trends in the insurance market. The gist of the thesis is comparison of life insurance (unit linked insurace) products of five czech biggest insurance companies. Next part describes motivation of consumers to insure themselves. It also points out the rival products. Last part focuses on pension reform and how life insurance is connected with this reform.

The diploma thesis deals primarily with consumer protection in the capital market in the Czech Republic. It compares the situation in the capital market with conditions existing in the banking sector. It emphasizes the importance and possible consequences of upcoming pension reform in the Czech Republic in 2011. The first part of the thesis describes capital market structure and its functioning, analyses financial position of Czech households and contemplates the reasons that can lead to consumer protection in financial markets. The second part of the thesis deals with specific protective tools that are used in the Czech Republic to protect consumer. It analyses tools that are implemented to protect consumers' financial assets and tools associated with distribution of financial services and information requirements imposed on financial intermediaries. The thesis analyses the efficiency of selected important tools (such as investor compensation schemes or investment limits).

Old age pension scheme system consists of two time periods of different lengths. During the first stage the insured persons contribute financially a certain part of their base of assess into the system. For purposes of this work we can call this sum a percentage of their income. On reaching a certain age the insured people can draw regular amounts of money, called old age pension. Insurance rate should be paid for a longer period of time and in smaller amounts. Old age pension should be, on the other hand, higher and be available for a shorter period. This works tries to find out which of these two sums (in total) is higher: insurance rate of pension.The value studied is the rate of return, which compares the money paid by the state with the insurance money. Actual employees' salaries reflecting the progression of the lifetime income were used in calculations. Concurrently, this work enables to understand the method of calculation of old age pension nominal value for the year 2011 and takes into account the changes within the so called small pension reform.

The diploma thesis deals with the pension system of the Czech Republic in the context of the pension reform. It responds to the issues of unfavorable demographic developments. The starting point of the thesis is theoretical description of the classification of the pension systems. The attention paids to the characteristics of the pension system in the Czech Republic. The main part of the thesis analyzes individual pillars and highlights the changes caused by the pension reform. The practical part of the thesis focuses on the evaluation of the profitability of the funds of the third pillar, the calculation of the pensions from the first pillar pensions arising from comparing each of the three pillars of the pension reforms and proposals of the pension reforms. The aim is to analyze certain issues and evaluate how the pension reform was successful.

This master thesis aims to explore the relationship between financial literacy and probability of saving in private pension schemes in the Czech Republic among citizens older than 50 years. While the first part of this master thesis provides overview of pension systems among the OECD countries with emphasis on the Czech Republic, the second part brings the theoretical background for the financial literacy and for the measurements of financial literacy according to international studies. The last part of this master thesis serves as a practical part of this master thesis. In order to examine the relationship between financial literacy and saving for retirement, we performed a logistic regression. We set the probability of saving in a private pension scheme as a dependent variable and independent variables according to the studied literature. The last part of this master thesis also provides the summary of our conclusions about the importance of financial literacy within the decisions about saving for retirement and also the opinion that the lack of financial literacy was one of the main causes for unsuccessful pension reform in the Czech Republic where the second pillar was cancelled recently.

This master thesis is focused on the analysis of the impact from trends of different demographic aspects on the current pension system in the Czech republic and Norway. The old age pension system including its reforms is described and compared within both countries. Furthermore it is investigated how the citizens perceive the development of particular demographic aspects, what they think about the status and reforms regarding the pension system, and how they provide themselves for retirement. In addition to the comparison between the Czech and Norwegian pension systems the thesis also provides suggestions for improvement within demographic aspects, the settings of the pension system, the government and the society itself.

This thesis deals with actual questions about life insurance on the Czech insurance market. At the beginning of the work, life insurance is described from a theoretical point of view - main characteristic, forms of traditional and new products, kinds of available insurances. It also deals with Czech insurance market, price of insurance and insurance premium in case of insured event. The last part contains actual problems with life insurance - one-shot insurance payment, universal life insurance, equality of rights of men and women, distributional channels and general insurance conditions.