Research & Analysis

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

Poll finds that two thirds of the British public support a Universal Basic Income

The Independent has published the results of a Europe-wide poll that finds that 62% of the British public support a Basic or Citizen’s Income: click here to read the article. This Read More

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

Childcare costs

Introduction The Citizen’s Income Trust has suggested replacing Child Tax Credits and Child Benefit with a higher flat rate Child Benefit and merging the income tax-free personal allowance, the National 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

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