Targeting Benefit Levels to Individuals or Families?
Zelleke Almaz
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Zelleke Almaz: The New School
Basic Income Studies, 2007, vol. 2, issue 1, 10
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In this article, I take for granted agreement on the merits of an unconditional basic income, and I consider the form its distribution might take. I explore the equity, efficiency, and incentive effects of several basic income models in order to provide a plausible example of what a basic income in the US might look like. I present four basic income models, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and consider whether any one of these models is conclusively superior to the others in terms of the trade-offs involved. I conclude with a tentative proposal for a level and distribution for introducing an unconditional basic income in the US.
Keywords: Keywords – basic income; family; guaranteed minimum income; household composition; incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.2202/1932-0183.1054
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