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Economics for Drs - what you need to know to understand UBI and a jobs guarantee

Economics for Drs - what you need to know to understand UBI and a jobs guarantee

FromThe BMJ Podcast


Economics for Drs - what you need to know to understand UBI and a jobs guarantee

FromThe BMJ Podcast

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Oct 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As the economic fall out of covid-19 starts to bite, attention is turning to how the state can support everyone - especially if the pandemic turns into a depression.

Universal basic income, and a jobs guarantee are two of the potential mechanisms a country could deploy, both with different effects on people's health and wellbeing.

In this podcast, Martin Hensher, associate professor of health system financing and organisation at Deakin university in Australia, and author of the new analysis "Covid-19, unemployment, and health: time for deeper solutions?" joins us to get you up to speed on the economic thought behind these two schemes.

Read the full analysis;
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3687
Released:
Oct 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully “online first” publication. The BMJ’s vision is to be the world’s most influential and widely read medical journal. Our mission is to lead the debate on health and to engage, inform, and stimulate doctors, researchers, and other health professionals in ways that will improve outcomes for patients. We aim to help doctors to make better decisions.