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A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State

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Basic Income in Japan

Part of the book series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee ((BIG))

Abstract

Basic income (BI) supporters like to present their proposal as an idea whose time has come (Standing 2011: 171–182). All too often, however, they remain quite vague as to what this exactly means and to the reasons why this is more the case now than ever before. In this chapter, we explore this issue in further detail by focusing on the Japanese case in a comparative perspective.1

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  1. Yannick Vanderborght
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Vanderborght, Y., Sekine, Y. (2014). A Comparative Look at the Feasibility of Basic Income in the Japanese Welfare State. In: Vanderborght, Y., Yamamori, T. (eds) Basic Income in Japan. Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137348081_2

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