Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Verho, Jouko; Hamalainen, Kari; Kanninen, Ohto
署名单位：
VATT Institute for Economic Research
刊物名称：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
ISSN/ISSBN：
1945-7731
DOI：
10.1257/pol.20200143
发表日期：
2022
页码：
501-522
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摘要：
This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were randomized to receive a monthly basic income. The experiment lowered participation tax rates by 23 percentage points for full-time employment. Despite the considerable increase in work incentives, days in employment remained statistically unchanged in the first year of the experiment. Moreover, even though all job search requirements were waived, participation in reemployment services remained high.
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