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Expanding the Canada Workers Benefit to Design a Guaranteed Basic Income

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  • Kourtney Koebel
  • Dionne Pohler

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We design a hybrid guaranteed basic income and earnings subsidy for working-age Canadians that addresses federalism and work disincentive concerns associated with a conventional basic income by expanding the Canada Workers Benefit. We cost our program and propose a revenue-neutral financing model by consolidating provincial SA programs and eliminating several federal and provincial tax credits. We simulate the distributional effects of our program and financing on household disposable income across deciles and family types and discuss its impact on marginal effective tax rates and interaction with disability programs. Our program substantially reduces poverty rates among two-parent families and working-age singles and couples without children.

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  • Kourtney Koebel & Dionne Pohler, 2019. "Expanding the Canada Workers Benefit to Design a Guaranteed Basic Income," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 45(3), pages 283-309, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:45:y:2019:i:3:p:283-309
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2019-016
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    1. Green, David A. & Kesselman, Jonathan Rhys & Tedds, Lindsay M. & Crisan, I. Daria & Petit, Gillian, 2020. "Basic Income Simulations for the Province of British Columbia," MPRA Paper 105918, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Green, David & Kesselman, Jonathan Rhys & Tedds, Lindsay M., 2021. "Covering All the Basics: Reforms for a More Just Society," MPRA Paper 105902, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Tedds, Lindsay M. & Crisan, I. Daria, 2020. "Evaluating the Existing Basic Income Simulation Literature," MPRA Paper 105915, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Anita Rizvi & Vivian Welch & Marcia Gibson & Patrick R. Labelle & Christina Pollard & George A. Wells & Elizabeth Kristjansson, 2022. "PROTOCOL: Effects of guaranteed basic income interventions on poverty‐related outcomes in high‐income countries: A systematic review," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 18(4), December.
    5. Wayne Simpson & Harvey Stevens & Lee Stevens & Herb Emery, 2022. "A Guaranteed Basic Income for Canadians: Off the Table or Within Reach?," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 15(20), June.
    6. Miguel Gómez de Antonio & Noemí Villazán Pellejero, 2023. "Propuesta de implantación de políticas de complemento salarial en el Ingreso Mínimo Vital y en el IRPF: un análisis empírico con EUROMOD," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 245(2), pages 35-69, June.
    7. Inez Hillel, 2020. "Holes in the Social Safety Net: Poverty, Inequality and Social Assistance in Canada," CSLS Research Reports 2020-06, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.

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