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creators_name: Cremer, Helmuth
creators_name: Roeder, Kerstin
creators_idrefppn: 058485376
title: Means testing versus basic income: the (lack of) political support for a universal allowance
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abstract: This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as well as the “severity” of means testing (if any), a BI system could only emerge in the political equilibrium under very strong and empirically implausible conditions. Instead, the political process leads to a means tested system. The necessity to draw political support does affect the design of the system, but it only implies that means testing becomes less severe so that benefits are extended also to themiddle classes. However, a fully universal system is rejected by a majority.
date: 2015-07
date_type: published
publisher: TSE Working Paper
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/29485
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divisions: tse
keywords: Basic income
keywords: Means testing
keywords: Political support
language: en
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view_date_year: 2015
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
series: TSE Working Paper
volume: 15-588
pages: 13
institution: Université Toulouse Capitole
department: Toulouse School of Economics
book_title: TSE Working Paper
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citation:   Cremer, Helmuth <https://www.idref.fr/058485376> and Roeder, Kerstin  (2015) Means testing versus basic income: the (lack of) political support for a universal allowance.  TSE Working Paper, n. 15-588     
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/18409/1/Cremer_18409.pdf