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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Basic Income"”.
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Universal Basic Income (UBI): A Cure-All or Band-Aid?
… a poorly performing welfare state, Universal Basic Income (UBI) has returned to popular attention. To assess whether this is warranted and, more importantly, to provide answer on the extent to which a UBI can or should be considered a cure-all, this work, first, examines the historical …
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Money for nothing: a rhetorical history of the universal basic income
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Who Supports Basic Income? Constituency as a Constraint in Political Feasibility Testing
With a provincial welfare system in crisis, Basic Income is re-merging as a strategy to guarantee a minimum level of income for everyone, regardless of employment status. According to polls, public opinion on Basic Income in Ontario is almost evenly divided among those supporting it and those …
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Rights of Concrete Others: Ethics of Concrete Others, Social Individuality, and Social Multiculturalism
… of concrete others. Specifically, reconfigured basic income guarantee, which includes basic income, public education, public healthcare, and linguistic diversity, is a concrete form of equality within groups that is conducive to promoting equality between groups. Therefore, I think that social …
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Shortcomings of South African Economic Growth on Poverty Alleviation and Job Creation
… to alleviate poverty within its unequal income societies. There is a massive gap of poverty imbalances between South African families especially the poor and marginalised who were previously disadvantaged by the apartheid system. The South African government introduced Grants for Old Age …
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A critical examination of the concept of welfare dependency : its assumptions, underlying values and manifistation in social policy, internationally and in South Africa
… been used in opposition todeveloping a universal Basic Income Grant (BIG).With the aid of case studies focusing on recent social welfare deVelopments in SouthAfrica, Australia and Brazil, this study attempts to critically analyse the term "welfaredependency" to determine which social values and …
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A critical review of the literature on UBI experiments
A universally guaranteed basic income is said to be a disarmingly simple idea that could help solve the problems associated with economic insecurity. However, sceptics about this idea argue that it is too simple and that despite best intentions, could have adverse results. These possible adverse …
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AI systems and worker’s rights in Europe: assessing the potential impact of CSR tax and automation tax as a response to job automation
… operate in Europe. Following the concept, the income generated from the additional tax might be used as a source of funding for affordable and efficient Universal Basic Income.
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A critical examination of the concept of welfare dependency: its assumptions, underlying values and manifestation in social policy, internationally and in South Africa
… used in opposition to developing a universal Basic Income Grant (BIG). With the aid of case studies focusing on recent social welfare developments in South Africa, Australia and Brazil, this study attempts to critically analyse the term "welfare dependency" to determine which social values and …
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Just Exchanges, Just Markets: Effective Consent Driven Proceduralism
… by adopting something such as the Universal Basic Income to guarantee that the bare subsistence needs of all citizens are met.
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Essays in the Economic Sociology of Inequality
… Using Understanding Society, we investigate how income neighbourhood deprivation impacts on youth happiness and social interactions. Using only children in social housing allows to limit the problems related to the endogeneity of the neighbourhood selection choice. The empirical findings allow us …
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Rocks for the homeless: the health conditions of Spokane homeless people
… to unfair economic arrangements, Universal Basic Income (UBI), affordable housing, and Medicare for all, homelessness can become a distant memory.</p>
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Mental Health and Poverty During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… having adequate financial resources in affording basic needs and supporting mental health and well-being.
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Work and Freedom in Contemporary Capitalism
… a `refusal of work') and the introduction of a basic guaranteed income (BI). While signs of such a `refusal' are hard to find in contemporary society, chapter 3 reads the riots and public sector strikes in Britain in 2011 as moments of instability in the meaning of work. By resisting the …
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Essays on Family Policy, Social Transfers, and Entrepreneurship
… The chapters study family policy, universal income transfers, and universal wealth transfers, with an emphasis on how policy design affects behavior through caregiving arrangements, labor supply, saving, and entrepreneurship. Chapter 1 examines Quebec’s 2006 parental leave reform, which …
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A welfare deservingness approach to the COVID-19 grant: an exploration of the social and economic experiences of unemployed youth in South Africa
… continued support in the form of a possible basic income grant. In-depth individual qualitative interviews were conducted with 16 participants who were aged between 21 to 35 years old: at an average age of 25. A subjective or purposive sampling method was used to inform the data collection …
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Rethinking Social Assistance Policy to Reflect Modern Socio-Economic Realities
… is evidence of long-term usage and re-entry to income assistance programs. Due to its design, the current social assistance model functions not so much as a short-term safety net, but as a vortex, leading to continued and repeated need for income assistance. Data presented in this paper …
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Parish management information (a system) : I. Educational data analysis. II. Educational situation indices
… the number of sisters dropped 18%); parishes income, in constant dollars, dropped 0.5%. The educational crisis found the parishes without adequate management information for decision making.Two types of information puterized for annual updating.I. Educational Data Analysis. Basic income and …