INTRODUCTION
The basic income experiment in Finland has received significant attention, generating considerable scientific, political and journalistic debate. For under- standable reasons, attention has mainly focused on the possible outcomes of the experiment, but there has also been an abundance of speculations as to why the experiment was carried out in the first place, why the research setting was such as it was, and why the target population only consisted of unemployed people receiving a basic unemployment allowance or a labour market subsidy (see Chapter 2) from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela). The aim of this background chapter […]
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