Research note: A feasible way to implement a citizen's income

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Citizen's Income - an unconditional and nonwithdrawable income for every individual - would offer many advantages, but transition from the UK's current largely means-tested benefits system to one based on a Citizen's Income might generate initial losses for some low-income households, and this could make a Citizen's Income politically unattractive. This paper employs EUROMOD to study the initial losses that a variety of different Citizen's Income schemes would generate, and finds that in those schemes in which a Citizen's Income replaces most means-tested benefits, substantial household losses would occur, both generally and for households in the lowest disposable income decile, whereas where means-tested benefits are not abolished, but instead the Citizen's Income reduces means-tested benefits in the same way that other existing income does, almost no households in the lowest disposable income decile suffer initial losses, and initial losses generally are at a manageable level. This means that there is at least one method for implementing a Citizen's Income that could be politically attractive.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EUROMOD Working Paper ; No. EM17/14

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs: General ; National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs ; Social Security and Public Pensions ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Household Analysis: General
• Subject: citizen's Income ; household income ; initial losses ; microsimulation model

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Torry, Malcolm
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/113326
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET