Basic Income at Municipal Level: Insights from the Barcelona B-MINCOME Pilot

IF 1 Q3 ECONOMICS

Basic Income Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-10 DOI:10.1515/bis-2021-0047

Sebastià Riutort, B. Laín, Albert Julià

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Abstract

Abstract Between 2017 and 2019, Barcelona was one of the first European cities to implement a basic income experiment, the B-MINCOME pilot, aimed at reducing poverty and social exclusion in a low-income area of the city. A new cash grant was designed along with a package of active policies. Four modalities of participation were then established depending on two criteria: whether attending these policies was mandatory or not, and whether participants’ additional income altered the amount of the grant or was instead net added on top. The context which initially moulded the pilot is firstly explained. Then, the cash schema and the active policies are described followed by an explanation of its experimental design. The main results at individual, community and institutional levels formerly released in the official reports are now integrated and jointly addressed. Finally, conclusions discuss some issues raised by the pilot’s results in light of the findings gathered in other similar basic income experiments.

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市级基本收入:来自巴塞罗那B-MINCOME试点的见解

2017年至2019年期间，巴塞罗那是首批实施基本收入试验的欧洲城市之一，即B-MINCOME试点，旨在减少该市低收入地区的贫困和社会排斥。一项新的现金赠款连同一揽子积极政策一起被设计出来。然后根据两个标准确定了四种参与方式:参加这些政策是否是强制性的，以及参与者的额外收入是否改变了补助金的数额，或者相反是净增加的。首先解释了最初塑造试点的背景。然后，对现金图式和主动策略进行了描述，并对其实验设计进行了解释。以前在官方报告中公布的个人、社区和机构各级的主要成果现在得到综合和共同处理。最后，结语部分根据其他类似基本收入试验的发现，讨论了试点结果提出的一些问题。

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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.