Research & Analysis

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History of Basic Income

5th January 2017

Behavioural Effects of a Citizen’s Income on wages, job security and labour supply

[Note: If the tables appear too small on your computer screen, go to tools/zoom/200% ] Abstract. What would be the effect of a citizen’s income (CI), aka basic income or Read More

3rd January 2017

A response to a recent article in The Independent

John Rentoul has written an article entitled ‘Basic Income is the latest bad political idea that refuses to die’. We would not normally write a critical response to such articles, but the selective Read More

14th December 2016

Criticisms of Citizen’s Income, and how to overcome them

To see Ursula Huws’ article The key criticisms of Basic Income and how to overcome them, click here.
28th November 2016

An evaluation of a strictly revenue neutral Citizen’s Income scheme

This article  [1] is an amended version [2] of a paper that was first published as a EUROMOD working paper by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University Read More

16th November 2016

ICAEW report on implementing Citizen’s Income

On the 15th November the ICAEW (Institute for Chartered Accountants of England and Wales) held a consultation on four Citizen’s Income implementation methods described in their new publication, How might Read More

29th October 2016

Institute for Policy Research seminar and blog posts

On the 11th October the Institute for Policy Research held a seminar: ‘Money for Everyone: The state of the Basic Income / Citizen’s Income debate’. Click here to read an Read More

14th October 2016

A Human Rights Income, by Peter Kobak

Peter Kobak has written a master’s degree dissertation at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland: A Human Rights Income: How a Basic Income Could Help States Fulfil Human Rights Obligations Abstract: Read More

13th October 2016

A research seminar on the state of the Basic Income/Citizen’s Income debate

To see an account of a research seminar that took place at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath on Tuesday 11th October 2016, click here
21st September 2016

Some typical household effects of a Citizen’s Income scheme

The research results that the Citizen’s Income generally publishes are of the aggregated variety – that is, they answer such questions as: How many households in lowest earnings decile would experience Read More

21st September 2016

Beveridge’s rival

Beveridge’s rival: Juliet Rhys-Williams and the campaign for tax-benefit integration, 1942-1955 Readers of the Citizen’s Income Trust newsletter are likely to be familiar with Lady Juliet Rhys-Williams (1898-1964), a pioneering Read More