The Practical Impossibility of Testing UBI

Karl Widerquist

Chapter Chapter 5 in A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens, 2018, pp 37-42 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter discusses one big difficulty with conducting experiments in Universal Basic Income (UBI): the practical impossibility of testing it under most practical circumstances and the problems created by using the Negative Income Tax as an approximation of UBI.

Keywords: Basic income experiments; Negative Income Tax experiments; Social science experiments; Basic income; Universal Basic Income; Negative Income Tax; Inequality; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03849-6_5

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