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Basic Income on the Agenda : Policy Objectives and Political Chances / Loek Groot, Robbert-Jan Veen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789053564615
  • 9789048505029
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  • 331.23094
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- How Attractive is a Basic Income for European Welfare States? -- Part One. Policy Objectives -- In Search of the Double-Edged Sword -- Basic Income and its Cognates: Partial Basic Income versus Earned Income Tax Credit and Reductions of Social Security Contributions as Alternative Ways of Addressing the ‘New Social Question’ -- Activation and the Burden of Working: On Instrument Choice by a Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Government -- Arguing for a Negative Income Tax in Germany -- Hush Money or Emancipation Fee? A Gender Analysis of Basic Income -- Prospects for Basic Income in an Age of Inactivity? -- Basic Income and Social Europe -- Basic Income at the Heart of Social Europe? Reply to Fritz Scharpf -- European Basic Income or the Race to the Bottom: Why Politicians Might Come to Think the Unthinkable -- Bibliography -- Part Two Political Chances -- Clues and Leads in the Debate on Basic Income in the Netherlands -- The History of an Idea: Why did Basic Income Thrill the Finns, but not the Swedes? -- From Concept to Green Paper: Putting Basic Income on the Agenda in Ireland -- Short Cuts and Wrong Tracks on the Long March to Basic Income: Debating Social Policy Reform in Germany -- Ups and Downs of Basic Income in Denmark -- What Reforms are Needed for the Minimum Insertion Income (RMI) in France? -- The VIVANT Experiment in Belgium -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patters of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in work. It also assesses the political chances of basic income in various European countries. These themes are highly relevant to policy-makers in the field of labour markets and social security, economists, political philosophers, and a social science audience in general.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- How Attractive is a Basic Income for European Welfare States? -- Part One. Policy Objectives -- In Search of the Double-Edged Sword -- Basic Income and its Cognates: Partial Basic Income versus Earned Income Tax Credit and Reductions of Social Security Contributions as Alternative Ways of Addressing the ‘New Social Question’ -- Activation and the Burden of Working: On Instrument Choice by a Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Government -- Arguing for a Negative Income Tax in Germany -- Hush Money or Emancipation Fee? A Gender Analysis of Basic Income -- Prospects for Basic Income in an Age of Inactivity? -- Basic Income and Social Europe -- Basic Income at the Heart of Social Europe? Reply to Fritz Scharpf -- European Basic Income or the Race to the Bottom: Why Politicians Might Come to Think the Unthinkable -- Bibliography -- Part Two Political Chances -- Clues and Leads in the Debate on Basic Income in the Netherlands -- The History of an Idea: Why did Basic Income Thrill the Finns, but not the Swedes? -- From Concept to Green Paper: Putting Basic Income on the Agenda in Ireland -- Short Cuts and Wrong Tracks on the Long March to Basic Income: Debating Social Policy Reform in Germany -- Ups and Downs of Basic Income in Denmark -- What Reforms are Needed for the Minimum Insertion Income (RMI) in France? -- The VIVANT Experiment in Belgium -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

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Persisting unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, labour market flexibility, job insecurity and higher wage inequality, changing patters of work and family life are among the factors that exert pressure on welfare states in Europe. This book explores the potential of an unconditional basic income, without means test or work requirement, to meet the challenges posed by the new social question, compared to policies of subsidized insertion in work. It also assesses the political chances of basic income in various European countries. These themes are highly relevant to policy-makers in the field of labour markets and social security, economists, political philosophers, and a social science audience in general.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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