Full 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.
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to the journey of the Finnish basic income
experiment 1
Olli Kangas, Signe Jauhiainen, Miska Simanainen and Minna Ylikännö
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 Ylikännö
6 Basic income and employment 55
Minna Ylikännö 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 Ylikännö and Mikko Niemelä
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 Mäkkylä
14 The feasibility of universal basic income 187
Olli Kangas
Index
