But the aim of the austerity-focussed centre-right Finnish government is to reduce the country’s 8.5 per cent unemployment rate, and the basic income trial is just one way of attempting to do that.

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 ...

Finnish Experiment Basic Income Universal basic income models have generated a large interest in many countries. Finland carried out the first nationwide randomized experiment on basic income ...

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 help ...

The Finnish basic income experiment generated huge international attention. It was the first statutory nation-wide randomised field experiment on basic income. However, contrary to a common ...

A partial basic income, about €550 ($596) a month, ... This degree of comprehensiveness puts the Finnish experiment far ahead of basic income trials in the past.

HELSINKI, Finland — A basic income made recipients happier than they were on unemployment benefits, a two-year government experiment in Finland has found. But it did not, as proponents had hoped ...

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 ...

Two Finnish Army Soldiers at the 7th Army Training Command Non-Commissioned Officer Academy's Basic Leadership Course describe their experiences training with American Soldiers in Grafenwoehr ...

The Finnish experiment was about partial basic income targeting able-bodied people without work, it was not about universal basic income. That has been a source of major confusion around the ...

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 ...