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Strong support for a universal basic income, in particular among those who would benefit
Busemeyer, Marius R.; Rinscheid, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 13 (2023) 21, pp. 143-150
A representative survey from August 2022 confirms public support for a universal basic income (UBI): Between 45 and 55 …
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Challenging the justice of a basic income policy when focusing on the homeless population : a case study on Germany
Löffler, Verena - 2024
gap, I identify homeless people in Germany as the least advantaged and assess how this group would be impacted by a basic … introducing a basic income would affect the homeless population in Germany in terms of income, self-respect, and power. While a …
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Testing preferences for basic income
Kuss, Ana Helena Palermo - 2019
Inspired by Fröhlich and Oppenheimer (1990), an experimental survey in the lab was designed to find out if preferences …
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Getting the poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
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Getting poor to work : three welfare increasing reforms for a busy Germany
Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Steiner, Viktor - 2015
We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011305299
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In Germany, younger, better educated persons, and lower income groups are more likely to be in favor of unconditional basic income
Adriaans, Jule; Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Juergen - In: DIW Weekly Report 9 (2019) 15, pp. 127-134
Representative survey results have shown a stable approval rate for implementing unconditional basic income of between … 45 and 52 percent in Germany since 2016/17. In European comparison, this approval rate is low. Younger, better educated … persons, and those at risk of poverty support the concept of unconditional basic income in Germany. But these demographics are …
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Zustimmung für bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen eher bei jungen, bei besser gebildeten Menschen sowie in unteren Einkommensschichten
Adriaans, Jule; Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 86 (2019) 15, pp. 263-270
Repräsentative Befragungsergebnisse zeigen in Deutschland seit 2016/17 eine stabile Zustimmungsrate zur Einführung … eher gering. Gerade junge, höher gebildete und von Armut bedrohte Menschen unterstützen in Deutschland die Idee eines … Zusammenhang mit der Einstellung zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen. Leistungsgerechtigkeit und bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen …
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Some welfare economics of working time
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2021
Few skilled workers in the UK have flexible working time - GPs are the exception - most can only choose between unemployment, or full-time work, which has changed little in recent years, while part time work is mainly unskilled. This market rigidity imposes major welfare losses, in contrast to...
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The effects of a hybrid negative income tax on poverty and inequality : a microsimulation on the UK and Italy
Tromp, Alexander - 2017
This paper aims to propose a social protection system that "decommodifies" labour and fulfills the properties of a Social Protection Floor satisfying revenue-neutrality. To this end, firstly, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme is explored. Secondly, the UBI is transformed into a Negative...
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Tax policy reform and universal basic income effectiveness in a currency union : implications for long-term growth, inequality, and welfare
Kame Babilla, Thierry U. - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 10 (2023), pp. 1-15
This paper aims to assess tax policy reforms that can sustain universal basic income programs and foster long-term growth and welfare in a currency union that faces fiscal rule constraints and inequality. To address this ongoing government and economics' debate, we developed a Dynamic Stochastic...
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