We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple … margins. For given unemployment, lowering UB and raising BI always benefits the unemployed, raises utilitarian welfare and … benefits a poor majority. Reducing unemployment and UB simultaneously can benefit a majority of the employed as well as all …

income ; redistribution ; basic income ; unemployment benefits ; happiness ; well-being … of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own … relativity. Basic income Pareto dominates categorical benefits with moderate concern for relativity in both cases. -- relative …

tax response increases with comparison, but, surprisingly, dominates the comparison effect and reduces individual labour …

using plausible income distributions. -- Progressive tax ; utilitarian ; max-min ; help the poor …

a standard four-day week, tax reform, basic income, and flexibility rights for all could reverse these trends and …