The creation of family allowances (abono de família) in 1942 was an innovative policy decision in Portugal, that became one of the few countries with this kind of social protection by the mid of 20th century. In Europe this kind of social benefit has been created few years before in Belgium (1930), France (1932), Spain (1938) and The Netherlands (1939). After this creation, this family allowance became integrat...
Durante o período do Estado Novo, com a criação do sistema da Previdência Social, formam-se as bases institucionais em que assenta o actual Estado-providência em Portugal. As decisões políticas sobre a previdência tomadas no período entre 1935 e 1973, em particular a Reforma da Previdência de 1962, constituíram marcos significativos na história dessa construção. Neste artigo apresentam-se séries estatísticas qu...
The effect of retirement on economic welfare, indirectly measured by income, has not been studied widely, namely due to the lack of longitudinal data. A large literature exists about poverty in old age, mainly based on cross sectional survey data, but usually those studies are not able to study the transitional effect of retirement on income as they do not observe the workers who do retire before and after thei...
This paper aims at the presentation of some preliminary outcomes from the ongoing research project on the history of the Portuguese welfare state and the process of its construction along the 20th century in the period of Estado-Novo. It is part of the research in its quantitative content, intending the presentation of historical statistical series on social protection in the period 1935-1973. The political dec...
Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies
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