In recent years many European and extra-European countries have been considering the introduction of an innovative and ambitious kind of social policy: The Universal Basic Income (UBI). This concept is not completely revolutionary; already in the 90s several economists and politicians proposed the idea of guaranteeing fair standard of life to the whole society (Rhys-Williams, 1943; Friedman, 1962; Tobin, 1966). The matter has been further discussed for the following decades and has recently gained more importance due to the rapid technological development causing increasing job losses, especially for low profile workers (Pwc, 2017). In recent years, some countries, such […]
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