More for Less: The Job Guarantee Strategy

Harvey Philip ()
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Harvey Philip: Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 07102, USA

Basic Income Studies, 2012, vol. 7, issue 2, 3-18

Abstract: The cost and effectiveness of a basic income guarantee and a job guarantee (combined with conventional transfer payments) are compared with respect to their ability to eliminate poverty and unemployment. It is argued that a BI guarantee provided in the form preferred by most advocates of the idea (a universal basic income grant or equivalent negative income tax) would be both more costly and less effective than a job guarantee—if the latter is properly designed to secure the right to work and income security recognized in in the Universal Declaration of Human Right. It is further argued that the job guarantee strategy configured in this way also would do more to promote the real freedom goals of the basic income advocacy movement.

Keywords: basic income; job guarantee; economic security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1515/bis-2013-0006

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