| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
A Basic Income (BI) is an income unconditionally paid to all on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement. In other words, it is a form of guaranteed minimum income that differs from those that now exist in post-war Welfare State through being paid (1) to individuals rather than to households ; (2) irrespective of any income from other sources ; and (3) without requiring the performance of any work.
This research points out that, firstly, although recently as social policy against social exclusion and poverty, the 'workfare' reform and A. B. Atkinson's the participation income proposal that is a form of partial BI have been worthy of note, a guaranteed income conditional on 'work' should not be introduced, even if it is a wide-meaning workfare including a wider definition of social contribution, secondly, BI should be introduced not only by itself but also associated with the reduction of working time and work sharing, thirdly, it is important that we should break the work-and-spend cycle and overcome consumerism by the reduction of working time and the work sharing, thus we should reclaim 'income' and 'work'.
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