Journal
CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 3, Pages 373-387Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0896920520940011
Keywords
basic income; behavioural economics; labour; policy experiment; wellbeing
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- Academy of Finland: Academy of Finland Distinguished Professorship (FiDiPro) Social Science for the Twenty-First Century: The Changing Economy-Society Relation [282955, 282970]
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [282955, 282955] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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This article examines the basic income experiment conducted in Finland recently, highlighting that it was part of a broader government-led reform program aimed at restructuring labor supply.
This article is concerned with the recent (2017-2018) basic income experiment in Finland. This experiment attracted global attention, not least because of its break from the conditionalities and sanctions associated with social security payments in workfare states. This article stresses, however, that it is critical to understand how the Finnish basic income experiment was part of a broader programme of government-led reform in Finland. As well as establishing the experiment as a preferred mode of policymaking, this programme contained a range of strategies aimed at restructuring labour supply. The article shows how the basic income experiment should be understood as a behavioural intervention designed to enhance the wellbeing of unemployed populations at a time when wellbeing is emerging as a value-producing capacity.
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