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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-, et al.
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Age Universalism Will Benefit All (Ages)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ageing without Ageism?. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 9780192894090 - 9780191915222 ; , s. 94-112
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Welfare states differ greatly in the extent to which they provide social protection for various age-related social risks and set different priorities between needs associated with childhood, maturity, and old age. This chapter aims to explore and defend an ideal of age universalism in social insurance, according to which the degree of income replacement should be similar across age-related social risks. The argument suggests pragmatic advantages of age-balanced social insurance, showing that it tends to provide higher levels of income replacement for age-related risks throughout the life cycle and achieve more favourable social outcomes in all age groups, including poverty rates, trust, and subjective well-being.
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-, et al.
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Basinkomstens nya våg : Lärdomar från medborgarlönsexperiment i välfärdsstater
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Tanken på en villkorslös grundersättning för samhällets alla medlemmar har diskuterats av och till sedan 1700-talet men under senare år har förslag om basinkomst fått en spridning som aldrig tidigare i historien. 2020 års pandemi och lamslagning av världsekonomin har dessutom gett basinkomst förnyad aktualitet. Ett viktigt inslag i denna nya våg av intresse är en rad experiment i olika delar av världen med sikte på att sprida ljus över några av de konfliktfyllda frågorna kring basinkomst. I den här rapporten analyserar ledande basinkomstforskare medborgarlönsexperiment i Finland och Nederländerna och undersöker vad dessa kan säga oss om vilka konsekvenser en basinkomst skulle få i avancerade välfärdsstater. Rapporten tecknar en bild av de politiska processer som ledde fram till experimenten och belyser i vilken mån dessa och liknande experiment kan klargöra hur en basinkomst skulle påverka samhället. Varför har dessa experiment genom-förts? Vilka vetenskapliga och politiska lärdomar finns att dra? Och vad – om något – kan de säga oss om basinkomstens önskvärdhet och genomförbarhet?
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-, et al.
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Exit strategy or exit trap? Basic income and the ‘power to say no’ in the age of precarious employment
- 2021
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Ingår i: Socio-Economic Review. - : Oxford University Press. - 1475-1461 .- 1475-147X. ; 19:3, s. 909-927
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An increasingly influential claim is that exit-based empowerment through an unconditional basic income offers the cornerstone of an effective strategy for supporting precarious workers in contemporary labor markets. However, it is plausible to assume that supporting the ‘power to say no’—to avoid or leave unattractive jobs—will empower precarious workers only to the extent that it offers the basis of a credible exit threat. In this article, we argue that a basic income-induced exit strategy amounts to a hollow threat. In light of a realistic understanding of how labor markets operate and how the opportunities of disadvantaged workers are presently structured, we show that the basic income-centered exit option can easily become an exit trap rather than an empowered fallback position.
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-
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Inkomst utan arbete
- 2024
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Ingår i: Forskning & framsteg. - Stockholm : Forskning & framsteg. - 0015-7937. ; :5, s. 32-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- När AI tar över allt fler arbetsuppgifter har idén om basinkomst väckts till liv. Det finns experiment som visar att en ovillkorad grundinkomst från staten får människor att må bättre – och jobba mer, skriver statsvetaren Simon Birnbaum.
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-
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Religious faith and social justice : on Hägglund’s incompatibility thesis
- 2023
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Ingår i: Politics, Religion & Ideology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2156-7689 .- 2156-7697. ; 24:4, s. 586-607
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Is religious faith necessarily a barrier to the achievement of a just society? In This Life, Martin Hägglund answers ‘yes’, defending a form of political atheism based on the claim that a wholehearted commitment to social justice presupposes the recognition of humans as altogether finite, mortal beings. Hägglund’s thorough contribution offers a useful entry point for exploring widely perceived—but seldom articulated—obstacles to more conciliatory approaches for seeking radical social change. In this article I unpack and reject what I call Hägglund’s incompatibility thesis on religious faith and social justice. I argue that it ultimately rests on false oppositions that present no insurmountable obstacles to firm coalitions for social activism across secular and religious worldviews. While Hägglund’s arguments raise relevant questions and challenges for some theological views, his global rejection of theistic faith from coalitions for social justice turns out to be (1) unnecessary, (2) illiberal, and (3) counterproductive. Considering the possibilities and hindrances for stable alliances for liberal equality across groups, I contend that political philosophy and social justice activism cannot afford to cut off or alienate theistic believers from egalitarian political struggles.
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-
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The Ethics of Basic Income
- 2023. - 2
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Ingår i: The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031410000 - 9783031410017 ; , s. 581-596
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-
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Unconditional Basic Income and Duties of Contribution : Exploring the Republican Ethos of Justice
- 2020
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Ingår i: Welfare to work in contemporary european welfare states. - : Policy Press. - 9781447340010 ; , s. 281-305
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Do welfare states promote social justice when they demand that individuals must work in return for social benefits? This chapter explores a novel approach to this question, based on the idea of a republican ethos of justice. The analysis brings out important reasons for why duties of contribution have a significant role to play in the quest for a just welfare state, based on the demands of political community, civic virtues, and anti-oligarchic commitments. However, this does not lead to the justification of welfare conditionality. By contrasting the republican ethos with the philosophy of productive reciprocity, the author instead shows how the political discourse of duty and community offers weighty arguments in defence of aims associated with unconditional basic income. Placing active citizenship and resistance to domination in focus, republicans have good reasons to favour basic income-oriented solutions over compliant productivism.
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