I am writing to inform you of the publication of a new Institute for Policy Research (IPR) Policy Brief, 'Assessing the Case for a Universal Basic Income in the UK'.
The Policy Brief is the culmination of a year-long project, in which we have carried out microsimulation modelling on a series of possible basic income schemes, and sought to situate basic income within the wider political economy of welfare reform.
Across five chapters, the Policy Brief introduces basic income as a family of schemes, identifies the key controversies and debates, and reviews the nature of existing empirical evidence;examines the reasons behind increased interest in and support for basic income, in terms of shortcomings of existing welfare provisions and fundamental labour market change; reviews microsimulation work looking at the fiscal and distributional effects of different plausible proposals; looks at theoretical, empirical and microsimulation evidence on basic income’s anticipated labour market effects; and identifies possible constituencies of support for and opposition to basic income, assessing the feasibility of introducing the policy (in various forms) into the UK welfare system.
The full brief is available for download on the IPR website here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/publications/assessing-the-case-for-a-universal-basic-income-in-the-uk/.
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