UBI involves unconditional cash payments to all citizens whatever their income. Photo: Getty German researchers are to give a group of people just over £1,000 ($1,307) a month each, in a trial looking at the potential benefits of introducing a wider universal basic income (UBI).
The experiment will asses how giving 120 people €1,200 (£1,085) a month will affect work patterns and leisure time. They will be studied against a comparison group of 1,380 people who do not receive the payments.
UBI involves unconditional cash payments to all citizens whatever their income, either replacing or complimenting other targeted welfare benefits or […]
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