Universal Basic Income and Its More Testable Sibling, the Negative Income Tax

Karl Widerquist

Chapter Chapter 2 in A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, 2018, pp 15-18 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter defines and explains the workings of Universal Basic Income and its more easily testable cousin, the Negative Income Tax.

Keywords: Basic income; Universal Basic Income; Unconditional basic income; Negative Income Tax; Basic Income Guarantee; Inequality; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6_2

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