Case study: implementing a basic income
As part of the seminal Nuffield Foundation UKMOD grant, we ran a Basic Income (BI) Case Study to provide some concrete illustrations of the ways in which tax-benefit microsimulation modelling can be used to understand the effects and implications of complex reforms.
The Case Study illustrates how to turn the ‘concept’ into a practical scheme with emphasis on the full range of modelling choices to be made, how to make corresponding changes in UKMOD, as will the use of the EUROMOD software’s built-in analysis tools to estimate the effects of these changes.
The Case Study has produced a blue paper – Modelling Universal Basic Income using UKMOD – and an advanced UKMOD workshop. The training material for the workshop area available from the Training section of the website.
Different scenarios for Basic Income schemes can be explored using UKMOD Explore, our web interface for tax-benefit microsimulation modelling.
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Recent publications on Basic Income using the UK component of EUROMOD:
- Malcolm Torry, Evaluation of a Recovery Basic Income, and of a sustainable revenue neutral Citizen’s Basic Income, with an appendix relating to different Universal Credit roll-out scenarios, EUROMOD Working Paper 7/20
- Luke Martinelli and Kathryn O’Neill, A comparison of the fiscal and distributional effects of alternative basic income implementation modes across the EU28, EUROMOD Working Paper 14/19
- Malcolm Torry, Static microsimulation research on Citizen’s Basic Income for the UK: a personal summary and further reflections, EUROMOD Working Paper 13/19
- Luke Martinelli, A Basic Income trilemma: affordability, adequacy, and the advantages of radically simplified welfare, Journal of Social Policy, 49(3), 461-482
For more publications on Basic Income, see here.