Temporary exit from employment and Citizen’s Income: A reply

Abstract

As authors of the commentary, we greatly appreciate Jay Ginn’s response to our proposal, and are grateful to the journal editors for their decision to publish both contributions. The proposal for temporary exit from employment (TEFE) as an alternative to retirement is innovative, and as we explain below, opens up new opportunities as well as new risks, all of which call for further academic and social debate. Readers will gather from our commentary and this response that we do not share Ginn’s generally negative view, and we believe the TEFE proposal may be seen as complementary to the Citizen’s Income (CI) proposal, but not as an alternative to it. Indeed, we consider the complementarity of CI and TEFE to be a particularly advantageous way forward.