Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change

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Autor(a) principal: Coelho, José Pedro Silva
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/104208
Resumo: In the last decades, income inequality has been on the rise in theU.S. The growing skill premium suggests the pivotal role of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in promoting the observed in-crease in inequality levels. In this context, labor income tax struc-tures have been central to the policy debate. I develop an overlap-ping generations model to perform a welfare evaluation of Univer-sal basic income (UBI) tax structures and verify how these interactwith SBTC. I find that an UBI system would have improved so-cial welfare in 2010 when compared to the existing tax system anddetermine that this result is primarily motivated by SBTC.
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spelling Universal basic income in the context of biased technological changeIncome inequalitySkill premiumOptimal taxationUniversal basic incomeDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoIn the last decades, income inequality has been on the rise in theU.S. The growing skill premium suggests the pivotal role of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in promoting the observed in-crease in inequality levels. In this context, labor income tax struc-tures have been central to the policy debate. I develop an overlap-ping generations model to perform a welfare evaluation of Univer-sal basic income (UBI) tax structures and verify how these interactwith SBTC. I find that an UBI system would have improved so-cial welfare in 2010 when compared to the existing tax system anddetermine that this result is primarily motivated by SBTC.Brinca, PedroRUNCoelho, José Pedro Silva2020-09-17T14:15:19Z2020-01-162020-01-032020-01-16T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/104208TID:202492150enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:49:45Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/104208Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:40:10.236628Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
title Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
spellingShingle Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
Coelho, José Pedro Silva
Income inequality
Skill premium
Optimal taxation
Universal basic income
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
title_full Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
title_fullStr Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
title_full_unstemmed Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
title_sort Universal basic income in the context of biased technological change
author Coelho, José Pedro Silva
author_facet Coelho, José Pedro Silva
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Brinca, Pedro
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Coelho, José Pedro Silva
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Income inequality
Skill premium
Optimal taxation
Universal basic income
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Income inequality
Skill premium
Optimal taxation
Universal basic income
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description In the last decades, income inequality has been on the rise in theU.S. The growing skill premium suggests the pivotal role of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in promoting the observed in-crease in inequality levels. In this context, labor income tax struc-tures have been central to the policy debate. I develop an overlap-ping generations model to perform a welfare evaluation of Univer-sal basic income (UBI) tax structures and verify how these interactwith SBTC. I find that an UBI system would have improved so-cial welfare in 2010 when compared to the existing tax system anddetermine that this result is primarily motivated by SBTC.
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