Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Social media: How Twitter affects the discussion of UBI
A new research study carried out by Jeff Hemsley, Martha Garcia"Murillo and Ian P. MacInnes investigates how social media affects the discussion and spread of policy and ideas with a case study focus on the topic of Universal Basic Income (UBI). The researchers argue...
Portugal: survey shows opinion towards basic income change since 2014
A Portuguese civic movement for the promotion of basic income, named RBI-TT, has been collecting answers to a simple questionnaire on basic income, having done so already in 2016 and 2014. This way, it is possible to measure how people’s opinions change over time, at...
India: IMF supports basic income, recognising existing welfare programmes as “inefficient”
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a report suggesting that basic income would be better than their welfare system at supporting low income households in India. Similar evidence has been found for both Indonesia and Peru, where basic income was found...
Universal Basic Income could directly reduce work-related stress
Dr. Matthew Johnson. Picture credit to: Lancaster University Dr. Matthew Johnson, in an article published on LabourList, examines the effects of universal basic income (UBI) on stress. He co-authors with Elliot Johnson a paper with the title "Stress, domination and...
The Netherlands: Report argues that basic income doesn’t work
Ive Marx. Picture Credit to: University of Antwerp A news article posted in Flanders Today refers to a report, headed by economist Ive Marx, which concludes that introducing basic income in the Netherlands can actually increase poverty while having only a small...
USA: Trump’s response to poverty in the USA
Picture credit to: Big Think. On the 12th of July 2018, Trump's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released the report "Expanding Work Requirements in Non-Cash Welfare Programs", in response to an executive order made in April 2018 on reducing poverty in America. The...
Discussion on the future of UBI trials
Picture credit to: iStock The start of the longest and largest Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiment in Kenya and the approaching end of the trial in Finland spark a new discussion among experts on the effects of ‘no-strings attached’ money transfers. ...
United Kingdom: Study suggests that welfare conditionality does more harm than good
The Welfare Conditionality (WelCond) project recently released a report on how people receiving benefits in the UK experience welfare conditionality within a social security system. Welfare conditionality is where a person's eligibility for benefits is dependent on...
Political Quarterly special issue on Tony Atkinson’s Participation Income
Political Quaterly has just published a series of papers devoted to Tony Atkinson’s Participation Income (these will appear in print later in 2018, but all articles are available online at the moment). These have been presented and discussed at the 2017 BIEN Congress....
United States: the district of Columbia releases a basic income policy analysis
District of columbia Lincoln memorial Washington monument. Credit to: History Channel. The district of Columbia has released on the 27th February 2018 a policy analysis that examines different approaches and strategies for providing a locally-funded guaranteed...
Mexico: Universal Basic Income stages of implementation
Since 2016 that Congresswoman Araceli Damián has supported and “presented an initiative to reform the Mexican Constitution and create the right to [a] universal citizen’s income”. In the latest version of this proposal, it is framed as an intrinsic human right,...
David Calnitsky, “The employer response to the guaranteed annual income”
David Calnitsky has recently published a paper analyzing the impact of basic income on the labor market, on the Socio-Economic Review Journal. The Abstract reads as follows: “How do firms react when the whole labor force has access to a guaranteed income? One...
