An update, a correction, and an extension, of an evaluation of an illustrative Citizen’s Basic Income scheme – addendum to EUROMOD working paper EM12/17

Malcolm Torry

No EM12/17a, EUROMOD Working Papers from EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research

Abstract: This is an addendum to EUROMOD working paper EM 12/17, which updates, corrects and extends the previous evaluation of an illustrative Citizen’s Basic Income scheme. Debate about Citizen’s Basic Income – an unconditional and nonwithdrawable income for every individual – has shifted in character. An earlier phase related to the proposal’s desirability; then followed debate about its feasibility; and now attention has turned to questions of implementation. Working paper EM 12/17 operationalised characteristics of two implementation models in terms of changes that might be required in existing UK tax and benefits systems, and it evaluated the implementation methods in relation to a wider variety of indicators than previous exercises of this kind: poverty and inequality indices, tax rate rises required for revenue neutrality, household disposable income gains and losses, households’ abilities to escape from means-testing, and marginal deduction rates. This addendum employs EUROMOD H1.0+ to update the evaluation of one of the two implementation methods, to make a correction in one of the marginal deduction rates, and to extend the evaluation by calculating the number of households able to escape from all means-tested benefits, and by calculating the gains and losses that would be experienced by households containing individuals with disabilities.

Date: 2018-03-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur and nep-hme
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/fi ... euromod/em12-17a.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ese:emodwp:em12-17a

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in EUROMOD Working Papers from EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jonathan Nears ().