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Targeting Benefit Levels to Individuals or Families?
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Almaz Zelleke
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June 28, 2007
In this article, I take for granted agreement on the merits of an unconditional basic income, and I consider the form its distribution might take. I explore the equity, efficiency, and incentive effects of several basic income models in order to provide a plausible example of what a basic income in the US might look like. I present four basic income models, discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and consider whether any one of these models is conclusively superior to the others in terms of the trade-offs involved. I conclude with a tentative proposal for a level and distribution for introducing an unconditional basic income in the US.
Keywords: Keywords – basic income; family; guaranteed minimum income; household composition; incentives
Published Online: 2007-6-28
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Keywords for this article
Keywords – basic income;
family;
guaranteed minimum income;
household composition;
incentives
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- Content
- From the Editors
- List of Contributors
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- Debate
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- From Survival to Decent Employment: Basic Income Security in Namibia
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- Review of Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White, The Ethics of Stakeholding
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