Unconditional Basic Income: Criterial Bases, Transitional Forms and Experimental Implementation

Occupation: Head of the Laboratory of Problems of Living Standards and Quality of Life; Professor
Affiliation:
Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population of the FCTAS RAS
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Ekaterina A. Chernykh

Occupation: Senior Researcher
Affiliation: Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population of the FCTAS RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Sergey А. Zolotov

Occupation: PhD student
Affiliation: Lobachevsky State University
Address: Russian Federation, Nizhny Novgorod

Valentina V. Pavlova

Occupation: Associate Professor of organizational and managerial innovations, Leading Research Worker
Affiliation: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 10

Pages

84-94

Abstract

The article summarizes and systematizes the results of the implementation of the most significant pilot projects on unconditional basic income (UBI), supported by the state. The criteria for the correspondence of a cash transfer to the concept of the UBI are substantiated through a comparative analysis of different approaches to determining the essence of the UBI. The positive and negative consequences of using transitional UBI forms were revealed: “social dividends”, guaranteed minimum income, “negative income tax”, support for the most vulnerable groups of the population, cash payments during the pandemic period. It is concluded that the use of the UBI will contribute to the solution of a number of significant social problems of modern societies. The problematic and unstudied areas of testing transitional forms of UBI and the need to continue research and experimentation towards the realization of the universal nature of this social payment are indicated.

Keywords

unconditional basic income, transitional forms of UBI, negative income tax, guaranteed minimum income, social dividends, direct cash payments, support for the most vulnerable groups of the population, cash payments during pandemics

Acknowledgment

The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-010-00271 «Universal basic income as a regulator of improving the living standard and quality of life: theoretical and methodological justification, transitional forms and tools for testing in Russia».

Received

18.04.2020

Publication date

18.12.2020

Number of characters

34614

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GOST	Bobkov V., Chernykh E., Zolotov S., Pavlova V. Unconditional Basic Income: Criterial Bases, Transitional Forms and Experimental Implementation // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2020. – Issue 10 C. 84-94 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250009313-7-1-en (circulation date: 17.01.2025). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009313-7
MLA	Bobkov, Vyacheslav N, Chernykh, Ekaterina A, Zolotov, Sergey А, Pavlova, Valentina V "Unconditional Basic Income: Criterial Bases, Transitional Forms and Experimental Implementation." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 10 (2020):84-94. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009313-7
APA	Bobkov V., Chernykh E., Zolotov S., Pavlova V. (2020). Unconditional Basic Income: Criterial Bases, Transitional Forms and Experimental Implementation. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (10), pp.84-94 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009313-7

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