On the Economics of a Universal Basic Income

Straubhaar, Thomas

doi:10.1007/s10272-017-0649-8

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“…The However, so far only Finland, suffering from persistent and very high unemployment, has introduced a nation-wide pilot BI scheme in 2017, although several successful trials in developing countries are discussed by Standing (2017), and other pilots are planned in Canada, Spain and the Netherlands. A comprehensive discussion of the history, benefits and prospects of BI is provided by Van Parijs and Vanderborght (2017) Straubhaar (2017a) suggests replacing Germany's generous € 900 billion social security budget and notoriously complicated tax system with a much larger BI and negative income tax yielding €12,000 minimum income for all citizens, and a 50% flat tax on all incomes and value added. However several problems with this proposal are not addressed.…”

Section: The Return Of Basic Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Basic income and a public job offer: complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

FitzRoy

Jin

2018

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

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Section: The Return Of Basic Incomementioning

confidence: 99%

Basic income and a public job offer: complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

FitzRoy

Jin

2018

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

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“…The second way to make this possible is higher taxes especially for the very wealthy. Nowadays the gap between the rich and the poor is rapidly increasing and UBI would maybe solve this problem [19].…”

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The Role of AI and Automation on the Future of Jobs and the Opportunity to Change Society

Au‐Yong‐Oliveira

Canastro

Oliveira

et al. 2019

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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In today's world, technology is an indispensable part of our daily life. More and more products are produced to satisfy the needs of a growing population and the Internet is creating new services every day. However, to be able to keep up with the growing demand, new technologies needed to be invented to increase the pace of production and to lower costs. Automating tasks was the solution and for many years machines did repetitive tasks, replaced people and created new and better jobs to substitute the old ones. Nowadays automation is reaching incredible levels and it is not creating enough jobs to replace the old ones. Will unemployment increase in the upcoming years or will humanity be able to adapt to a different job market? Our study focuses on the types of unemployment caused by automation and on the possible solutions that society needs to implement. The research also points out how people from different social classes face the changing job market and how all can benefit from it. A new form of governance of society may be needed, in view of previous failed forms including fascism, communism, and, more recently, liberalism. In the future there will be fewer and fewer jobs that cannot be replaced by a robot. With this, the probability of mass unemployment is very high. An ideology promoting a Universal Basic Income could be a solution to combat the massive unemployment that automation may cause in the future, especially in medium-skilled jobs.

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“…Contemporaneitatea dezbaterii este dată pe de o parte de evenimente majore precum experimentarea măsurii în Finlanda (Kangas et al, 2017) sau referendumul despre legiferarea basic income în Elveția (von Elm, 2017). Pe de altă parte este o dezbatere care se suprapune peste cele anterioare și care este legată de accesibilitatea muncii și despre măsura în care lucrul oamenilor mai este în fapt necesar, în condițiile în care roboții și inteligența artifi cială înlocuiesc oamenii, fi ind mai efi cienți (Hughes, 2014;Pukka, 2017;Straubhaar, 2017). Dincolo de nevoia de a asigura venituri, apare nevoia de a redistribui avuția generată de către mașini și de a evita escaladarea inegalității.…”

Section: Finanțare șI Organizare a Noului MIX Al Bunăstăriiunclassified

Politici sociale postmoderne în România: Între nevoie și schimbările așteptate ale sistemului de furnizare a bunăstării

Voicu

2019

SOC ROM

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This paper discusses current challenges of the welfare regime in Romania, from the standpoint of postmodern cultural changes that started to aff ect society. Acording to the main argument, Romania is intertwined with other societies that have already underwent through fundamental changes due to increasing postmodern cultural orientation. Such process comes together with a need for individualization of intervention, due to individualization of needs. Delocalization and denormalization overlap individualization, in a world dominated by mobilities. The paper delves with the basic characteristics of these changes and shows how they already aff ect or may aff ect Romania in the near future, in specifi c domains such as family, education, or housing. International migration is in particular addressed, since Romania is experiencing a large and long-lasting out-migration fl ow. Changes in technologies are used as material basis for future changes, while cultural preferences and their changes are the red line for all subchapters.

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On the Economics of a Universal Basic Income

Cited by 31 publications

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Basic income and a public job offer: complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

Basic income and a public job offer: complementary policies to reduce poverty and unemployment

The Role of AI and Automation on the Future of Jobs and the Opportunity to Change Society

Politici sociale postmoderne în România: Între nevoie și schimbările așteptate ale sistemului de furnizare a bunăstării

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