Basic income experiment had ‘no effects on employment’

Basic income experiment had ‘no effects on employment’

File image of money / Credit: iStock The government has released the first results of its study into a two year basic income experiment which came to an end in December.

Two thousand people were randomly selected for the project, and received a regular monthly income of €560 whether they found a job or not.

Preliminary findings released today about the effectiveness of the experiment conclude that it did not increase employment, but the people who received the money felt better at the end of the experiment than those in a control group of unemployed people who did not receive any […]

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