Re:Results of Findland's basic income experiment
by ttonkytonk on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:17AM
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Did you read the article? The result was that recipients had a modest increase in employment compared to nonrecipients.
edit: to be clear, there was no effect either way in the first year of the test. The modest increase in the second year is complicated by something called "the activation module".
Re:Results of Findland's basic income experiment
by ttonkytonk on Saturday May 09, 2020 @09:32AM
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"In accordance with the preliminary plan for the evaluation, the employment effects of the basic income experiment were measured for the period from November 2017 to October 2018. The employment rate for basic income recipients improved slightly more during this period than for the control group. During the reference period, the basic income increased the number of days of employment by 6 days and the basic income recipients were employed for 78 days on average.
However, the interpretation of the effects of the experiment is made more complicated by the introduction of the activation model at the beginning of 2018, which meant more stringent entitlement criteria for unemployment benefits asymmetrically in both groups."
"The response rate for the survey was 23% (31% for the basic income recipients and 20% for the control group), which is typical for surveys."
At least they should answer the study they were enrolled into :| This shows the recipients have little consideration for the tax-payers.