Uma análise da redução dos gastos com pessoal nas IFES: seus determinantes e seus impactos sobre a política de carreira

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the logic of the composition of personnel expenses and their impacts on the career and retirement policy of IFES teachers, starting with 1994. To this end, we present the main determinants of the policy of Public Spending containment, characterized by the education policy proposed by multilateral lending agencies to peripheral countries, highlighting the World Bank's adjustment model; and the policy implemented by FHC, which defined the macroeconomic trap that generates a very high public debt. The aim is to show that these education policies had a sense of spending reduction and have to do with the treatment of public finances, interest payments and the production of primary surpluses. In this context, we investigate the nature of the evolution of public debt in the country. The results show that the adjustment was on the less resilient side, which is the primary spending cut, and that the expansion of Public Sector Net Debt exploded despite the growth of this primary surplus. This revealed to us that it was the financial side of the deficit (the behavior of the interest rate and the exchange rate) that caused the increase in Public Sector Net Debt. We have identified that the change in the IFES Personnel Expenditure trajectory has to do with these FHC Government cash control pathways, which have established significant changes in teachers' careers and their retirement rules, always with the aim of reducing costs. We conclude that the FHC government has ended up generating a costly reverse economic gear for the country and that the production of government primary surpluses is being generated to cover interest payments, which is the primary cause of public debt developments. Thus, the policy of containing primary spending applied in his government, including personnel, does not solve the problem of Brazilian public debt. But it favors speculators, as well as cutting spending on programs important for the country's development, such as those implemented. in IFES.