Research posts
Here you will find notices about research and research results relating to Basic Income
Stefen Hertog: “Making wealth sharing more efficient in high-rent countries: the citizens’ income”
Picture: credit to Engineers Ireland. Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has published a paper in Energy Transitions (Hertog, 2017) which relates the...
RSA suggests stepping stone to UBI
The UK-based Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has released a report suggesting a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund (UBOF) as a stepping-stone to a full universal basic income (UBI). The suggested UBOF would consist of £5000 a...
Europe: New paper by Institute of Labour Economics contributes to literature on the effects of introducing a UBI into current social security systems
Credit to: Flickr In a new paper, published by the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA) in December 2017, James Browne of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Herwig Immervoll, of both the IZA and the OECD, have discussed what...
FINLAND: Finland shares unconditional money, but the public view remains polarised
Ville-Veikko Pulkka Although an experiment on basic income is being performed in Finland at the moment (being expected to end by January 2019), this does not say much about what Finns think about it, or about basic income in general. According to recent...
UK: New research simulates labour market effects of tax and benefits reform options
Satelite picture over Europe. Credit to: TechCrunch. A new working paper from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex reports on research using the EUROMOD microsimulation programme to simulate the labour market effects of several...
UK: Steven Davies reviews Rutger Bregman’s “Utopia for Realists”
In the three years since its initial publication, Rutger Bregman’s Utopia for Realists has helped spur a global conversation on universal basic income (UBI). The book has become an international bestseller, garnering praise from intellectual heavyweights and...
CANADA: Deloitte future jobs report recommends basic income
Recently, there has been a great deal of attention paid to the changing nature of work. From rising automation to the ever-expanding gig economy, the effects of shifting labor landscapes are being felt by governments, businesses, and workers around the world. A new...
BARCELONA, SPAIN: Think Tank Publishes New Paper on City-Driven Basic Income
“Wise Cities & the Universal Basic Income: Facing the Challenges of Inequality, the 4th Industrial Revolution and the New Socioeconomic Paradigm” by Josep M. Coll, was published by the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) in November 2017. CIDOB is...
UK: A debate about the feasibility of Citizen’s Basic Income
Picture credit to: European Parliament On the 23rd November, Social Europe published an article by Bo Rothstein entitled ‘UBI: A bad idea for the welfare state‘: First, such a reform would be unsustainably expensive and would thereby jeopardize the state’s...
International: The International Monetary Fund offers analysis of UBI as part of its ‘Fiscal Monitor: Tackling Inequality’ report
In a paper released in October 2017, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has analysed the feasibility and effects of introducing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in various economies, looking at how it might help ease destructive levels of inequality present in many...
Dylan Matthews: “A new study debunks one of the biggest arguments agains basic income”
Trucks transporting PAL boxes. Credit to: Jesse M. Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi Vox Media, a USA online news outlet looks at a food support program in Mexico aimed at its poorest citizens, as a recent article shows. The program PAL (in Spanish “Programa de Apoyo...
Felix FitzRoy and Jim Jin, “Basic Income and a Public Job Offer: Complementary Policies to Reduce Poverty and Unemployment”
A case for a modest (partial) basic income plus a local job offer.
