The Argentine “Universal Child Allowance”: Not the Poor but the Unemployed and Informal Workers

Rubén Lo Vuolo

Chapter Chapter 2 in Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America, 2013, pp 51-66 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the controversial issues about Basic Income (BI), or Citizen’s Income (CI) policy, is its declared aim of distributing a stable and unconditional income to all people independently of their status or position in the labor market. This makes it a policy capable of mitigating the contradictory dual function that the capitalist system imposes on the wage relation: that it simultaneously and via a single mechanism resolve both the challenges of job allocation and income distribution among the labor force (and from there among the entire population). Thus, the CI offers a solution to the historical dilemma that remuneration for employment (wages) poses by acting as part of the production cost, while simultaneously being the main component of the population’s purchasing power.

Keywords: Labor Market; Social Security System; Income Transfer; Informal Worker; Conditional Cash Transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137077547_3

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