Finnish Basic Income Experiment 2017-2018 – About the experiment and its evaluation

Minna Ylikännö, Ph.D.

Senior Researcher

Kela – the Social InsuranceInstitution of Finlandminna.ylikanno@kela.fiBackgroundThe Center-True Finns-Conservatives coalition cabinet (nominated 28. May 2015)took basic income (BI) experiment in its working program by referring to:• Changes in the labor markets• Does the Finnish social security system properly correspond to changes in the labour market?– High level of structural unemployment, automatization, robotization etc.• Elimination of incentive traps in the social security system• Too many cases where work does not pay (enough)• Elimination of bureaucratic traps• Need for a more transparent and less complicated system instead of “social security jungleâ€â€¢ Main interest of the Government was in […]

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