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The Argentine “Universal Child Allowance”: Not the Poor but the Unemployed and Informal Workers

In: Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America

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  • Rubén Lo Vuolo

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One of the controversial issues about Basic Income (BI), or Citizen’s Income (CI) policy, is its declared aim of distributing a stable and unconditional income to all people independently of their status or position in the labor market. This makes it a policy capable of mitigating the contradictory dual function that the capitalist system imposes on the wage relation: that it simultaneously and via a single mechanism resolve both the challenges of job allocation and income distribution among the labor force (and from there among the entire population). Thus, the CI offers a solution to the historical dilemma that remuneration for employment (wages) poses by acting as part of the production cost, while simultaneously being the main component of the population’s purchasing power.

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  • Rubén Lo Vuolo, 2013. "The Argentine “Universal Child Allowance”: Not the Poor but the Unemployed and Informal Workers," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Rubén Lo Vuolo (ed.), Citizen’s Income and Welfare Regimes in Latin America, chapter 0, pages 51-66, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-1-137-07754-7_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137077547_3
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