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Basic Income
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Abstract The idea that states should provide a means-tested guaranteed minimum income for citizens who are unable to meet their basic needs is widely shared and
Symposium on basic income
The basic income proposal has received increasing attention in the past few years. Several ambitious basic income experiments are currently being planned in different parts of the world and the very f
A basic income for all: crazy or essential?
OUPblog, Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World. Shouldn’t society provide a safety net for all in modern society? The radical idea of ensuring a regular stream of cash paym
The new wave of basic income experiments
Welcome to a seminar on the new book "Basinkomstens nya våg" (The New Wave of Universal Basic Income). In the book leading researchers on universal basic income (UBI) analyze recent UBI-related experi
Sibling similarity in income: A life course perspective
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 78 Abstract Sibling similarity in income is a measure of the omnibus effect of family and community background on income. We estimate sibling similar
Basic income: A tool for justice or an unfair redistribution of resources?
What does it really mean when scientists and politicians are talking about basic income? Basic income is comparable to a general and unconditional income guarantee. Such an income guarantee is based o
Does Immigration Hurt Low Income Workers? Immigration and Real Wage Income below the 50th Percentile, Sweden 1993-2003
Working Paper 2010 no.6 This paper addresses potential effects of immigration on wage income of predominantly low income Swedish born workers, for which the estimates show mainly a positive relationshi
Child Health and Family Income: Physical and Psychosocial Health
This paper provides a detailed investigation of the family income/child health relationship focusing on physical and psychosocial health, parent’s socioeconomic background, and liquidity constraint pr
Basic income – the key to a free society and a sane economy?
It may sound crazy to pay people an income whether or not they are working or looking for work. But today, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, the idea of a basic income has be
Anca Gheaus: Feminism, basic income and equal opportunities
Anca Gheaus, Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Department of law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra ABSTRACTFeminists have always been divided about the desirability of a basic income. It is likely that a basic i
