2. The Finnish social security system: Background to the Finnish basic income experiment Olli Kangas and Miska Simanainen

2. The Finnish social security system: Background to the Finnish basic income experiment Olli Kangas and Miska Simanainen

INTRODUCTION

All basic income experiments so far have been planned and implemented in national or local contexts. Thus, the questions posed in the experiments and the answers achieved are bound to time and place. To understand the motivations behind the experiments and the results achieved, we need familiarity with the institutional frameworks in which they occur. This also applies to the Finnish basic income experiment. In this chapter, we shed light on the context in which the experiment was planned, implemented, and carried […]

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