Participation Income and the Provision of Socially Valuable Activities

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* Article: Participation Income and the Provision of Socially Valuable Activities. By Cristian Pérez‐Muñoz

URL = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-923X.12510 doi

Abstract

In this article, I argue that a participatory income (PI)—the proposal originally presented by Anthony Atkinson in 1996—can potentially perform better than an unconditional basic income (UBI) in terms of addressing unmet social needs. I explain why we should expect that unmet social needs can be better alleviated by the recipients of a PI rather than by the voluntary actions of UBI recipients. In particular, the argument presented here seeks to develop a particularly forgotten point in the PI debate—namely, the importance of using income transfer programmes as a policy tool to motivate people to engage in socially valuable activities.