Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income

Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017-2018

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This insightful book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nationwide randomised Finnish basic income experiment 2017 to 2018, from planning and implementation through to the end results. It presents the background of the social policy system in which the experiment was implemented and details the narratives of the planning process alongside its constraints, as well as a final evaluation of the results.Empirical chapters analyse the outcomes of the experiment in relation to the employment, health and well-being, in various forms, of the recipients of unconditional income transfer. Phenomenological aspects of living on basic income, based on face-to-face interviews, are also reported, as well as media discourse on the experiment and its results. This thought-provoking book concludes with an examination of the political feasibility of basic income in Finland.Offering important lessons on the planning and implementation of such experiments in a developed welfare state, this unique book will be a vital resource for scholars and students of social policy, welfare economics, basic security and basic income.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-06
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781839104848

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Edited by Olli Kangas, Director, Equal Society Strategic Research Programme, Academy of Finland and Professor of Practice, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Signe Jauhiainen, Senior Researcher, Miska Simanainen, Researcher, Research Unit, Social Insurance Institution of Finland and Minna Ylikännö, Specialist, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland

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‘...a highly insightful and easy-to-read study of an experiment considering the implications of BI.’

Innehållsförteckning

Contents:1 Introduction to the journey of the Finnish basic incomeexperiment 1Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikännö2 The Finnish social security system: Background to theFinnish basic income experiment 6Olli Kangas and Miska Simanainen3 Making of the Finnish basic income experiment 18Olli Kangas4 Constitutional preconditions for the Finnish basic incomeexperiment 37Anna-Kaisa Tuovinen5 Evaluation of the experiment 44Signe Jauhiainen, Olli Kangas, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikännö6 Basic income and employment 55Minna Ylikännö and Olli Kangas7 Subjective health, well-being and cognitive capabilities 71Miska Simanainen and Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson8 Financial well-being in basic income experiment 89Maarit Lassander and Signe Jauhiainen9 The bureaucracy of claiming benefits 106Miska Simanainen10 Trust, capabilities, confidence and basic income 117Olli Kangas, Minna Ylikännö and Mikko Niemelä11 What explains the popular support for basic income? 134Miska Simanainen and Olli Kangas12 Life on basic income – Interview accounts by basic incomeexperiment participants on the effects of the experiment 150Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll and Laura Tarkiainen13 Media coverage of the Finnish basic income experiment 169Katja Mäkkylä14 The feasibility of universal basic income 187Olli KangasIndex