Exploring Young People’s Attitudes Towards Basic Income

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI:10.1515/bis-2022-0030

Julen Bollain, Itziar Guerendiain-Gabás, Maitane Arnoso-Martínez, Ángel Elías Ortega

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Abstract

Today’s youth find it extremely difficult to look beyond the present, in large part due to the precariousness of the labour market. Unconditional basic income, meanwhile, is emerging as the economic and social policy that is attracting most interest as an alternative not only to the conditional minimum income programmes, but also to the increasing unemployment and precarious conditions of employment. This survey study, conducted among students at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 2021 (n = 709), explores the attitudes of young people towards basic income. Findings reveal strong support among Basque youth for basic income, citing its potential to enhance personal freedom and improve living conditions. While previous studies have already found that young people tend to be more supportive of basic income, this research fills a gap in the literature by analysing in depth young people’s attitudes and beliefs about this policy proposal.

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探讨年轻人对基本收入的态度

今天的年轻人发现，要想超越当前的生活极其困难，这在很大程度上是由于劳动力市场的不稳定性造成的。与此同时，无条件基本收入正在成为最受关注的经济和社会政策，它不仅是有条件最低收入计划的替代方案，也是日益严重的失业和就业不稳定状况的替代方案。这项调查研究于 2021 年在巴斯克地区大学（UPV/EHU）的学生中进行（n = 709），探讨了年轻人对基本收入的态度。调查结果显示，巴斯克青年大力支持基本收入，认为其有可能提高个人自由度并改善生活条件。虽然之前的研究已经发现年轻人倾向于更支持基本收入，但本研究通过深入分析年轻人对这一政策建议的态度和信念，填补了文献中的空白。

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来源期刊

Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

18.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Basic income is a universal income grant available to every citizen without means test or work requirement. Academic discussion of basic income and related policies has been growing in the fields of economics, philosophy, political science, sociology, and public policy over the last few decades — with dozens of journal articles published each year, and basic income constituting the subject of more than 30 books in the last 10 years. In addition, the political discussion of basic income has been expanding through social organizations, NGOs and other advocacy groups. Internationally, recent years have witnessed the endorsement of basic income by grassroots movements as well as government officials in developing countries such as Brazil or South-Africa. As the community of people working on this issue has been expanding all over the world, incorporating grassroots activists, high profile academics — including several Nobel Prize winners in economics — and policymakers, the amount of high quality research on this topic has increased considerably. In the light of such extensive scholarship on this topic, the need to coordinate research efforts through a journal specifically devoted to basic income and cognate policies became pressing. Basic Income Studies (BIS) is the first academic journal to focus specifically on basic income and cognate policies.