Can the introduction of an unconditional basic income improve the living conditions of socially disadvantaged people and what effects would its implementation have on high- income groups?

The idea of a fixed sum, which everyone should receive without compensation, is – depending on the interpretation – up to several hundred years old and has been considered by representatives of all political directions.

But in recent years it has increasingly found supporters. There are good reasons for this. Work and economic life are changing at a pace that was hardly imaginable just a few decades ago. Automation, digitization and networking are the key words that mean in practice: The number of jobs that will increasingly be performed by smarter machines in the future is likely to rise. Where […]

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