How do basic income programs impact employment? In recent years, many communities across the world have begun to test basic income programs, unconditional cash transfers to low income people. This type of assistance solves a problem that exists in other social safety net programs: in-kind transfers (such housing subsidies or food assistance) don’t offer much flexibility to the people that receive them. In a new working paper this month, there actually seems to be some evidence that at least one basic income has some positive impacts on the labor market. Researchers looked at a basic income program in Maricá, […]
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