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Active citizen's income, unconditional income and participation under imperfect competition: a welfare analysis

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  • Bruno Van der Linden

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Various types of basic income schemes are considered to compensate the allocative inefficiencies induced by unemployment benefits. A dynamic general equilibrium model of a unionised economy is developed in which participation to the formal labour market is endogenous and the budget of the State has to balance. It is shown that basic income schemes reduce the equilibrium unemployment rate. Assuming that job-search is costly to monitor, the normative analysis suggests that only the active population should be eligible to the basic income. Introducing such an 'active citizen's income' can be a Pareto-improving reform. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.

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  • Bruno Van der Linden, 2004. "Active citizen's income, unconditional income and participation under imperfect competition: a welfare analysis," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 56(1), pages 98-117, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:56:y:2004:i:1:p:98-117
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    1. Alice Fabre & Stéphane Pallage & Christian Zimmermann, 2014. "Universal Basic Income versus Unemployment Insurance," Cahiers de recherche 1427, CIRPEE.
    2. La, Jung Joo, 2023. "Macroeconomic effects of basic income funded by land holding tax," MPRA Paper 116151, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Jörg Lingens & Klaus Wälde, 2009. "Pareto-Improving Unemployment Policies," FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 65(2), pages 220-245, June.
    4. Islam, Nizamul & Colombino, Ugo, 2018. "The case for NIT+FT in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 75(C), pages 38-69.
    5. Luke Haywood, 2014. "Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen: eine ökonomische Perspektive," DIW Roundup: Politik im Fokus 33, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
    6. Nizamul Islam & Ugo Colombino, 2018. "The case for negative income tax with flat tax in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise," Working Papers 454, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
    7. La, Jung Joo, 2023. "The macroeconomic effects of basic income funded by a land-holding tax in Korea," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 45(1), pages 1-9.
    8. Felix FitzRoy & Jim Jin, 2015. "A Basic Income Can Raise Employment and Welfare for a Majority," Discussion Paper Series, School of Economics and Finance 201508, School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews.

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