Basic Income and Unequal Longevity

IF 1.6 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-26 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0007

Manuel Sá Valente

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Abstract

Abstract Universal basic income proposes providing instalments of constant magnitude to all. One problem with a stable basic income across life is that it seems unfair to shorter-lived persons, who are worst-off due to premature death and receive less over their whole lives. Basic capital solves this problem by providing a one-off grant to the young, but I argue that it mistreats long-lived persons, as it does not guarantee their real freedom across life. There is a dilemma between these proposals regarding their respective unfairness to the short- and long-lived. The solution I propose is a net basic income of decreasing magnitude until a specific age, after which the income is constant. This solution is compatible with constant income benefits across life, and it offers a fair answer to the problem of unequal longevity, a widely neglected but essential challenge in debates about basic income.

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基本收入和不平等寿命

全民基本收入建议向所有人提供固定数额的分期付款。终身稳定基本收入的一个问题是，这对寿命较短的人似乎不公平，他们因过早死亡而境况最差，一生中获得的收入较少。基本资本通过向年轻人提供一次性赠款解决了这个问题，但我认为这是对长寿者的虐待，因为它不能保证他们一生的真正自由。这些建议对短期和长期居民的不公平使他们进退两难。我提出的解决方案是，在某一特定年龄之前，净基本收入不断减少，之后收入保持不变。这一解决方案与终身不变的收入福利相兼容，它为不平等的寿命问题提供了一个公平的答案，这是一个在有关基本收入的辩论中被广泛忽视但又至关重要的挑战。

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Basic Income Studies ECONOMICS-

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2.40

自引率

18.20%

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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.