?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fmpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de%2F88611%2F&rft.title=Unconditional+Basic+Income%3A+Who+gets+it%3F+Who+pays+for+it%3F+A+social+Accounting+Approach+to+Distribution.&rft.creator=Reich%2C+Utz+Peter&rft.creator=Santos%2C+Susana&rft.subject=E01+-+Measurement+and+Data+on+National+Income+and+Product+Accounts+and+Wealth+%3B+Environmental+Accounts&rft.subject=E02+-+Institutions+and+the+Macroeconomy&rft.subject=E16+-+Social+Accounting+Matrix&rft.subject=E64+-+Incomes+Policy+%3B+Price+Policy&rft.description=Unconditional+basic+income+is+not+a+new+topic+in+political+economy%2C+and+it+gains+new+momentum+as+more+and+more+research+is+being+devoted+to+it.+The+discussion+focusses+on+the+adequacy+and+effects+such+a+policy+measure+may+entail+for+a+person+and+his+socio-economic+situation%2C+usually.+Object+of+investigation+is+the+individual%2C+and+the+corresponding+theory+is+of+micro-economic+descent.+In+this+paper%2C+in+contrast%2C+we+develop+a+method+of+how+to+assess+feasibility+and+consequences+of+an+unconditional+basic+income+for+a+modern%2C+open+economy%2C+on+the+macroeconomic+level%2C+using+concepts+and+statistics+of+a+Social+Accounting+Matrix+(SAM)+as+our+main+tool.+A+SAM-based+approach+can+measure%2C+and+perhaps+model%2C+the+impact+on+the+economic+activity+of+a+country%2C+and+on+its+economic+institutions+of+new+policy+measures+such+as+introducing+an+unconditional+basic+income.+%0D%0AThe+economic+activity+of+a+country+is+expressed+in+monetary+flows+as+registered+in+the+National+Accounts.+So+their+underlying+principles+and+definitions+are+adopted.+However%2C+the+habitual+way+of+putting+an+economy+into+a+sequence+of+institutional+accounts+connecting+each+institution%E2%80%99s+income+to+the+cost%2C+-+similar+to+business+accounting+-+reveals+only+one%2C+namely+the+inner-institutional+half+of+the+economic+circuit.+The+other%2C+outer+half%2C+namely%2C+how+the+costs+of+one+institution+generate+income+for+another+one+is+better+captured+by+the+format+of+a+Social+Accounting+Matrix.+In+the+paper%2C+the+impact+of+an+unconditional+basic+income+is+quantified%2C+for+macroeconomic+aggregates+of+institutional+sectors+and+socio-economic+groups+of+households%2C+taking+the+German+and+the+Portuguese+economies+as+examples.+Purpose+of+the+paper+is+not+to+argue+for%2C+or+against%2C+an+unconditional+basic+income%2C+but+to+offer+a+scientific+tool+with+which+to+calculate+and+assess+possibilities+and+consequences+of+the+proposal%2C+for+a+national+economy+as+a+whole.&rft.date=2018-08-22&rft.type=MPRA+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fmpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de%2F88611%2F1%2FMPRA_paper_88611.pdf&rft.identifier=++Reich%2C+Utz+Peter+and+Santos%2C+Susana++(2018)%3A+Unconditional+Basic+Income%3A+Who+gets+it%3F+Who+pays+for+it%3F+A+social+Accounting+Approach+to+Distribution.++++&rft.language=en