The Basic Income Experiment 2017–2018 in Finland: Preliminary Results
Abstract
Prime Minister Juha Sipilä's Government set customer orientation of services as one of the strategic objectives of the Governmental Program. To achieve this goal, Sipilä’s government decided to launch a basic income experiment during its term. By experimenting basic income, Sipilä’s government tried to find out whether the introduction of a basic income could make social security system in Finland more inclusive and further increase labour supply.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and Kela - The Social Insurance Institution of Finland have agreed on the assessment of the basic income experiment. The assessment of the basic income experiment is carried out by Kela, together with VATT Institute for Economic Research, University of Turku, University of Helsinki, Labour Institute for Economic Research, the Finnish Association for Mental Health and Tänk. The scientific director of the research project is the program director (SRC) Olli Kangas from the University of Turku and the administrative director, research professor Jaana Martikainen from Kela.
The Basic Income Experiment Evaluation Project studies the effects of basic income utilizing both registry, survey and interview data. The research results of the subprojects will be reported in stages during the evaluation research project 2019–2020. This report is the first research publication presenting the effects of the basic income experiment in Finland. It includes a preliminary register-based statistical analysis of the employment effects of the experiment for the year 2017. An analysis based on survey data examines the impact of the experiment on the well-being of the basic income recipients.
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Authors
Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen, Minna Ylikännö
Additional Information
- Peer-Reviewed: no.
- Open Access: yes.
- Cite as: Kangas, O., Jauhiainen, S., Simanainen, M., & Ylikännö, M. (Eds.). (2019). The basic income experiment 2017–2018 in Finland: Preliminary results. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-00-4035-2
