Finland: Guaranteed morale-boosting income, but little effect on employment Helsinki (AFP)
The provision of guaranteed basic income to the unemployed on an experimental basis has proved to be good for their morale, but has had no significant effect on their return to work, according to the conclusions of a study carried out in Finland, published Wednesday.
Some 2,000 randomly selected unemployed Finnish people received between January 2017 and December 2018 a fixed monthly income of 560 euros, without preconditions and exempt from taxes, to replace their unemployment benefit.The objective of the pilot project was to study whether this guaranteed income could […]
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