Basic Income, Work Incentives and Job Search Behaviour

Simon Watkins is a UK-based researcher focusing on basic income, welfare policy, and labour markets. His work bridges theory with empirical analysis, using innovative methodological approaches to examine how institutional contexts shape welfare outcomes across European regimes. Simon holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Surrey.

• Chapter One: Rethinking Basic Income: Welfare Principles, Institutional Contexts, and Job Search Behaviour.- Chapter Two: Basic income principles, welfare mechanisms and labour market responses.- Chapter three: Empirical evidence from Basic Income experiment.- Chapter Four: Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in social policy research.- Chapter Five: Three worlds of basic income: Developing an ideal type basic income welfare regime.- Chapter Six: Comparing welfare regimes to basic income ideals.- Chapter Seven: Mapping job search intensity across European countries.- Chapter Eight. Incentives and disincentives: Analysing welfare mechanisms' effects on job search behaviour.- Chapter Nine: Exploring the potential impact of basic income on job search behaviours.- Chapter Ten. From theory to practice: Lessons learned and future directions in basic income research.