Efeitos da Emenda Constitucional 41/03 nas aposentadorias por invalidez no Brasil

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I investigate the effect on civil servants behavior of more stringent rules for the utilization of disability retirement benefits, which were introduced by the Constitutional Amendment 41 of 2003. I first search the literature for factors that may influence people applications for disability retirement, and use these factors as control variables in an econometric model to compare the behavior of civil servants (treated group) with private sector workers (control group, as the changes in rules for the utilization of disability retirement benefits did not affect them). I use data on the overall number of retirements, retirements due to disability, and accidents at work for the two groups. Based on differences in differences estimates, I find public servants have reacted to changes in rules, avoiding the use of disability retirement benefits. This made the percentage of disability pensions in the public sector converge to that observed for private sector workers. I interpret this result a

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