Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Research Associate sought for a microsimulation project on Basic Income based at the University of Bath, UK
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
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
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
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
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
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...
2020 Korea Basic Income Fair International Conference
The original plan was for an international conference in Korea in February 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic caused the event to be postponed. An international conference has now been held online, and a wide range of speakers and discussants from around the world...
Basic Income and microcredit together
Katrin Oemmelen has written an article, 'Using poverty reduction policies in the fight against COVID-19', which is a summary of her dissertation. The results of a six-year research project in Namibia shows that access to financial tools such as universalbasic income...
Researcher sought to study the Maricá experiment
Details of the unconditional local currency income experiment in Maricá can be found here; with a translation in Portuguese here. The European Commission is advertising for a post-doctoral researcher to study the unconditional local currency experiment in Maricá in...
BIEN Congresses
BIEN’s 2023 Congress to be held in Seoul and Jeonnam, Korea Wed. 23rd to Sat. 26th August 2023.
