While basic income (BI) has long been advocated for its social benefits, some scholars also propose it in response to the ecological crises. However, the empirical evidence to support this position is lacking and the principles of an ‘ecological basic income’ (EBI), one with the potential to...

Gender based taxation (GBT) has been recently proposed as a promising policy in order to improve women's status in the labour market and within the family. We use a microeconometric model of household labour supply in order to evaluate, with Italian data, the behavioural and welfare effects of...

Part I: Introductory chapters -- Chapter 1: Introduction; Malcolm Torry -- Chapter 2: The definition and characteristics of Basic Income; Malcolm Torry -- Chapter 3: Three waves of Basic Income support; Karl Widerquist -- Part II: Some of the likely effects of Basic Income -- Chapter 4:...

The objective of this article is to estimate the fiscal costs, using income and expenditure surveys, of the provision of basic public services (electricity, water, telephone and internet) for the 40% of the population with the lowest incomes, the provision of a subsidy of 50% of actual food...