14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State

McGahey, Richard

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“…For McGahey [ 103 ], technology or computerization job losses, demographic changes, and rising costs of social benefits are challenges for social welfare states. Thus, social welfare states should offer new types of social benefits or build a new way out of this problem.…”

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“…Thus, social welfare states should offer new types of social benefits or build a new way out of this problem. McGahey suggests that there is a way for introducing Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a floor income, providing basic subsistence, complementing the existing welfare state policies, or, in some cases, substituting it [ 103 ]. Universal Basic Assets (UBA), sometimes considered an evolution of UBI [ 104 ], is defined as a basic set of resources every person is entitled to have: housing, education, health, and financial security.…”

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Future of work in 2050: thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

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Work has been continuously changing throughout history. The most severe changes to work occurred because of the industrial revolutions, and we are living in one of these moments. To allow us to address these changes as early as possible, mitigating important problems before they occur, we need to explore the future of work. As such, our purpose in this paper is to discuss the main global trends and provide a likely scenario for work in 2050 that takes into consideration the recent changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was performed by thirteen researchers with different backgrounds divided into five topics that were analyzed individually using four future studies methods: Bibliometrics, Brainstorming, Futures Wheel, and Scenarios. As the study was done before COVID-19, seven researchers of the original group later updated the most likely scenario with new Bibliometrics and Brainstorming. Our findings include that computerization advances will further reduce the demand for low-skill and low-wage jobs; non-standard employment tends to be better regulated; new technologies will allow a transition to a personalized education process; workers will receive knowledge-intensive training, making them more adaptable to new types of jobs; self-employment and entrepreneurship will grow in the global labor market; and universal basic income would not reach its full potential, but income transfer programs will be implemented for the most vulnerable population. Finally, we highlight that this study explores the future of work in 2050 while considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Intriguingly enough, while still operationalizing through individualized payments, UBI appears in these works somewhat like an antidote against the disintegration of societal and/or communal ties. The epistemological atomism which constitutes the sheer kernel of mainstream (North-American) Economic Thought is substituted by some degree of societal aggregation, which could mean a region, a nation, a continent or, in its most ambitious propositions, the entire planet (Bay, Pedersen 2006;Christensen 2002;McGahey, Stiglitz 2018;Moss et al 2019). It is precisely in this varying method of aggregating persons and regions that differences may appear.…”

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Locally Universal: Universal Basic Income Policies in the Post-Pandemic World-Order

Lucchesi Moraes,

Freire

2020

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Rampant disparities within the capital/labor share, increased pressure on climatically vulnerable communities and mass international migration due to economic hardship or violence. All that without mentioning the ever-haunting specter of automation-induced unemployment and, finally, the outbreak of a world-reaching pandemic: these are some of the ongoing cataclysmic trends that are making an everincreasing number of academics, policymakers and multilateral organizations revisit the adoption of Universal Basic Income (UBI) models. The idea of furnishing guaranteed, unconditional and universal basic income for people within an assigned geographical locality – and potentially the entire globe – has ebbed and flown from the pages of authors of all walks of the political spectrum for over two centuries. It appears, though, that such an idea is regaining momentum at this point in history, a somewhat unexpected moment, given the worldwide rise of nationalistic and illiberalism worldviews. The ambition of this proposal is not to promote an exhaustive comparative assessment of competing proposals currently taking place – or being aspired at – around the world. Instead, this working paper stands as an introductory effort to be followed by a more robust case study of existing schemes, which should bind them under the theories of Multipolarity. This proposal launches the cornerstone of a debate assessing the concrete costs and political coordination challenges that are likely to arise in a scenario of massive and ideally genuine universal effort to start or scale-up existing UBI initiatives through the deployment of digital financing techniques, including its most disruptive variations such as cryptocurrencies.

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Review of P.vanParijs and Y.Vanderborght Y. (2017), Basic Income. A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Press, 384 pp., ISBN 970674052284, hardcover.

D’Ippoliti

2018

Review of Income and Wealth

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14. Universal Basic Income and the Welfare State

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Future of work in 2050: thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Future of work in 2050: thinking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Locally Universal: Universal Basic Income Policies in the Post-Pandemic World-Order

Review of P.vanParijs and Y.Vanderborght Y. (2017), Basic Income. A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy, Cambridge (MA) and London: Harvard University Press, 384 pp., ISBN 970674052284, hardcover.

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