18th June 2016

A new Institute for Social and Economic Research working paper

EUROMOD Working Paper Series EM5/16 An evaluation of a strictly revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme by Malcolm Torry Publication date 17 Jun 2016 Click here to read the working paper Abstract Read More

6th May 2016

An attempt to study the intra-household transfers generated by a Citizen’s Income scheme

The information that it is possible to extract from the EUROMOD [1] microsimulation programme without undertaking a substantial amount of work is limited. There are two main reasons for this: Read More

12th April 2016

Methods for calculating the cost, gains and losses of a Citizen’s Income scheme

This paper sets out three methods for calculating the gains and losses that households would experience at the point of implementation and/or the total net cost of a Citizen’s Income Read More

13th March 2016

The Royal Society of Arts report on Citizen’s Income

Anthony Painter and Chris Thoung, Report: Creative Citizen, Creative State – The principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic Income, Royal Society of Arts, 2015, This report from the Read More

10th January 2016

Evaluation of a Citizen’s Income scheme

This scheme retains and recalculates means-tested benefits and sets the working age adult Citizen’s Income at £54.20 per week. The article evaluates changes to the number of claims for means-tested benefits and Read More

10th January 2016

The net income effects of two Citizen’s Income schemes

This article evaluates the net income effects of two Citizen’s Income schemes for an individual earning the National Minimum Wage Since 2007 we have published in our introductory booklet a Read More

14th October 2015

Two feasible ways to implement a revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme

by Malcolm Torry This article was first published as a EUROMOD working paper by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. It builds on a Read More

11th October 2015

101 Reasons for a Citizen’s Basic Income

“Provides a clear and incisive contribution to what may become one of the most critical social policy debates of the current era.” Professor Hartley Dean, London School of Economics “All Read More

15th June 2015

Conference report: A future without poverty: A conference jointly organised by the Fabian Society and Bright Blue

On Monday 2nd March well over a hundred people gathered to hear Andrew Harrop, General Secretary of the Left-leaning think tank Fabian Society, and Ryan Shorthouse, Director of the Right-leaning Read More

20th March 2015

Research note: A feasible way to implement a Citizen’s Income

Introduction [note]A previous version of this article was published as an Institute for Social and Economic Research Working Paper [/note] [note]This paper uses EUROMOD versions F6.0+ and G2.0++. The contribution Read More