COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A nationwide experiment with basic income in Finland has not increased employment among those participating in the two-year trial, but their general well-being seems to have ...

At its launch last year, Finland’s universal basic income experiment was hailed as a progressive and bold move towards a system that many – including billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – think ...

A couple of days back I was leaping up and down with glee, along with a number of other economic obsessives, about the news that Finland looks set to introduce a universal basic income. This is still ...

Heikki Hiilamo, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Helsinki, comments on the preliminary results of Finland's basic income experiment: Effects on the labour market were minimal, and ...

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Finnish finance minister: ‘Case closed’ for universal basic income Finland is the first country to complete a nation-wide experiment on universal basic income. With the first results in, Finnish ...

A successful trial of universal basic income in Finland should encourage the UK and Scottish governments to introduce a similar system when the Covid-19 furlough scheme is wound down, it was claimed ...

A study by the VATT Institute for Economic Research and the Labour Institute for Economic Research (PT) shows that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor ...

The unemployment rate in Finland has risen to 10%, slightly above the European Union average The Finnish government is considering a pilot project that would see the state pay people a basic income ...

Finland's flag flies aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it arrives into Nuuk, Greenland, on July 29, 2017. A nationwide experiment with basic income in Finland has not increased employment ...