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 ...

(Reuters) - Finland's basic income scheme, which paid the unemployed a small salary regardless of whether they also found work, did little to encourage recipients into employment as hoped, but it did ...

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 ...

Finland is the first country to complete a nation-wide experiment on universal basic income. With the first results in, Finnish finance minister Petteri Orpo told EURACTIV.com that the largest parties ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...