Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income
Lessons from the Finnish BI Experiment 2017-2018
Published on 6. August 2021
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-83910-484-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'...a highly insightful and easy-to-read study of an experiment considering the implications of BI.' -- Floriane Geels, European Journal of Social Security 'The editors of this brilliant volume argue that basic income is the ''money of trust''. Basic income advocates and critics alike will read this book to unpack and correct the media portrait of an ambitious experiment designed to determine the extent to which we can or should trust one another and our social institutions. Researchers will be, by turns, fascinated and terrified by the "politics" of conducting controversial social experiments on vulnerable human beings under the gaze of the international media.'More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cheltenham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-83910-484-8 (9781839104848)
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Persons
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 Ylikaennoe, Specialist, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment and Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland
Content
Contents:
1 Introduction to the journey of the Finnish basic income
experiment 1
Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikaennoe
2 The Finnish social security system: Background to the
Finnish basic income experiment 6
Olli Kangas and Miska Simanainen
3 Making of the Finnish basic income experiment 18
Olli Kangas
4 Constitutional preconditions for the Finnish basic income
experiment 37
Anna-Kaisa Tuovinen
5 Evaluation of the experiment 44
Signe Jauhiainen, Olli Kangas, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikaennoe
6 Basic income and employment 55
Minna Ylikaennoe and Olli Kangas
7 Subjective health, well-being and cognitive capabilities 71
Miska Simanainen and Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson
8 Financial well-being in basic income experiment 89
Maarit Lassander and Signe Jauhiainen
9 The bureaucracy of claiming benefits 106
Miska Simanainen
10 Trust, capabilities, confidence and basic income 117
Olli Kangas, Minna Ylikaennoe and Mikko Niemelae
11 What explains the popular support for basic income? 134
Miska Simanainen and Olli Kangas
12 Life on basic income - Interview accounts by basic income
experiment participants on the effects of the experiment 150
Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll and Laura Tarkiainen
13 Media coverage of the Finnish basic income experiment 169
Katja Maekkylae
14 The feasibility of universal basic income 187
Olli Kangas
Index
1 Introduction to the journey of the Finnish basic income
experiment 1
Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikaennoe
2 The Finnish social security system: Background to the
Finnish basic income experiment 6
Olli Kangas and Miska Simanainen
3 Making of the Finnish basic income experiment 18
Olli Kangas
4 Constitutional preconditions for the Finnish basic income
experiment 37
Anna-Kaisa Tuovinen
5 Evaluation of the experiment 44
Signe Jauhiainen, Olli Kangas, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikaennoe
6 Basic income and employment 55
Minna Ylikaennoe and Olli Kangas
7 Subjective health, well-being and cognitive capabilities 71
Miska Simanainen and Annamari Tuulio-Henriksson
8 Financial well-being in basic income experiment 89
Maarit Lassander and Signe Jauhiainen
9 The bureaucracy of claiming benefits 106
Miska Simanainen
10 Trust, capabilities, confidence and basic income 117
Olli Kangas, Minna Ylikaennoe and Mikko Niemelae
11 What explains the popular support for basic income? 134
Miska Simanainen and Olli Kangas
12 Life on basic income - Interview accounts by basic income
experiment participants on the effects of the experiment 150
Helena Blomberg, Christian Kroll and Laura Tarkiainen
13 Media coverage of the Finnish basic income experiment 169
Katja Maekkylae
14 The feasibility of universal basic income 187
Olli Kangas
Index