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BIRAL Seminar: International Perspectives in Basic Income Messaging
Jun 10, 2021 | Featured, Research
Please join us for the second BIRAL seminar: “International Perspectives in Basic Income Messaging,” hosted by the Jain Family Institute (JFI) on the 14th of June, 2021 at 12PM EST - New York, 1PM São Paulo, 5PM London, 6PM Berlin. A recording of this seminar is now...
King’s College Workshop explored “The Ethics of Basic Income in a Changing Economy”
May 29, 2021 | Featured, News, Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIjLNqbdzlg On 23 April 2021, Diana Popescu, Otto Lehto, and Emil Panzaru from Department of Political Economy, King's College London - organized a full-day online academic workshop called "The Ethics of UBI in a Changing Economy" that...
Korea: Sea Cucumber Fisheries as Shared Property of Islanders – “rediscovering rural basic income experiments”
Apr 11, 2021 | Featured, News, Research
Editor’s note: The use of the term ‘basic income’ for the sheme in Janggo Island does not correspond to BIEN’s definition of basic income, since it is paid not to all residents but to only participants in communal fish farming activities for 20 years, and paid not to...
Research Associate sought for a microsimulation project on Basic Income based at the University of Bath, UK
Apr 8, 2021 | Featured, News, Research
The Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at the University of Bath is seeking a post-doctoral research associate for a new programme of microsimulation research on Universal Basic Income (UBI). The IPR is collaborating on research into UBI with the newly formed...
Korea publishes more research results on the Gyeonggi Youth Basic Income
Mar 12, 2021 | Featured, News, Research
In April 2019 Gyeonggi Province in Korea, the area around Seoul, implemented a Youth Basic Income that pays to every 24 year old who is a permanent resident 250,000 won (US $220; £158; €184) every quarter for four quarters. The grants are given in a local currency....
Applications invited for doctoral study opportunities in Freiburg
The Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) is offering six positions for doctoral study. The closing date is the 28th February. FRIBIS is an interdisciplinary institute that aims to combine scientific research with political and civil debates as well as...
Central American States can and should move towards the implementation of a Universal Basic Income
Dec 13, 2020 | Featured, News, Research
By: Carlos Alvarado Mendoza y Jonathan Menkos ZeissigTranslation: Julio Linares The Spanish version of the article can be found here. Recently, the Central American Institute for Fiscal Studies (Icefi) proposed for Central America the implementation of a universal...
Council for European Studies conference, June 2021
Call for Papers: Panel on the politics of Universal Basic Income. What role for activism(s)? This Call for Papers (CFP) is interested in empirical studies that look at the social and political processes related to the growing interest in universal basic income (UBI),...
McKinsey publishes an article about the Finland experiment
Sep 28, 2020 | News, Opinion, Research
McKinsey, the consultancy company, has published an article about the Finland Basic Income experiment. The final results from Finland’s experiment are nowin, and the findings are intriguing: the basic incomein Finland led to a small increase in...
China: An Undergraduate Academic Seminar Held in CUPL
Sep 23, 2020 | Research
The news is written by Chen Xixi and modified by Furui cheng The Screenshot of Our WeChat Group In the ‘International Basic Income Week’, we three sophomores in CUPL (China University of Political Science and Law) organized an online feature academic report about...
New research on the Kenya pilot project
Innovations for Poverty Action has published a research paper, 'Effects of a Universal Basic Income During the Pandemic'. We examine some effects of Universal Basic Income (UBI) during the COVID-19 pandemic using a large-scale experiment in rural Kenya. Transfers...
A thesis about trade unions and Basic Income
Sep 15, 2020 | Research
Luca Michele Cigna has written a master's degree thesis about trade unions' positions on Basic income: Looking for a North Star? Trade unions' positions in the Universal Basic Income debate First, unions’ propensity to support a UBI depends onthe degrees of...
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