Finland is busy tracking data of 2,000 unemployed people who are paid €560 each a month under a two-year universal basic income experiment started by the Nordic nation in January. Finland, which has a welfare system that is often cited as the most generous offered by a nation, embarked on the project after a two-year study as globalisation and the changing work environment are posing new challenges.
“Lots of jobs will disappear; new kind of jobs will emerge. There will be more self-employed people and freelancers,” says Olli Kangas, Director of Governmental Relations, Kela, the social insurance institution that administers […]
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