basic income

English

Noun

basic income (usually uncountable, plural basic incomes)

1. A form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a country receive a sum of money, regularly and unconditionally.

   Synonyms: universal basic income, UBI

   • 2004, Ellen Hadley, One Dear Land, AuthorHouse (→ISBN), page 19:

     The second feature is the payment by the government of a basic income to all citizens, regardless of their private income or wealth. The amount of basic income should be the same for everyone, and should be calculated to be sufficient to […]

   • 2005, Guy Standing, Promoting Income Security as a Right: Europe and North America, Anthem Press (→ISBN), page 84:

     The questions to be raised are how processes of globalization, internationalization and economic integration affect national welfare states and what are the consequences for the basic income proposal.

   • 2014, Anthony B. Atkinson, Francois Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier (→ISBN), page 2168:

     For example, replacing an existing tax-benefit system with a combination of a basic income and a flat tax such that no income fell below the poverty threshold would presumably result in large changes in many dimensions of behavior which […]

Translations

basic income

• Danish: borgerløn c
• Esperanto: baza enspezo
• Estonian: kodanikupalk
• Finnish: perustulo (fi), kansalaispalkka (fi)
• French: revenu de base m
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• German: Grundeinkommen (de) n
• Italian: reddito di base m, reddito di base incondizionato m, reddito minimo universale m
• Portuguese: renda básica universal f
• Spanish: renta básica f
• Swedish: basinkomst c

Further reading

• basic income on Wikipedia.Wikipedia