This book examines the evolution of basic income policy and research in advanced economies and is divided into two parts. The first section considers the development of basic income as a social policy initiative in advanced (OECD) nations from the 1960s to today. It reviews what the negative...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Emergence of the Basic Income Concept as a Negative Income Tax (the 60s) -- Chapter 3.The Age of Negative Income Tax Experimentation (the 70s) -- Chapter 4. Basic Income Beyond the Negative Income Tax (the 80s and 90s) -- Chapter 5. Basic Income in the 21st...

This chapter provides new estimates of the effects of ICT investments on total labour demand in 19 OECD countries over the early 1990-2012. The findings suggest that ICT investments have no effects on labour demand in the long run. In the short run, however, due to sluggish adjustments in...