We study the macroeconomic and social effects of Universal Basic Income (UBI) programs in a developing economy …

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a periodic cash payment to all residents in a jurisdiction without any obligations to …

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is heavily discussed in the UK, with support and opposition from several …

This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefts with a basic income of equal size has minor … monthly basic income. The experiment lowered participation tax rates by 23pp for full-time employment. Despite the …

In this paper, we apply GBA+ to two potentially transformative policy approaches—basic income and basic services … a “neutral” subject. We demonstrate that the basic income and basic services approaches both have immediate practical …

An important component of the work to be completed by the British Columbia’s Expert Panel on Basic Income is to design … simulations to look at how various basic income (BI) models could work in B.C. (B.C. Poverty Reduction, 2018). The intent of these … different versions of a basic income in terms of both their cost implications and their implications for poverty reduction. We …

on Basic Income in two ways. First, it will inform the panel as to what program designs and choice elements should be … considered specifically for B.C. Second, it will highlight for the panel the basic income implementation challenges raised by the … choices among basic income design elements that are not addressed by the existing literature, and these would need to be …

We detail the political party commitments of a basic income in Canada over the last decade, a period of time in which … we have seen renewed conversations about a basic income in Canada. We find that in all but one case the policy … commitments lack any detail about design choices and no commitments to a basic income reference the principles of a basic income …