A Primer on the Finnish Basic Income Experiment: From Design and Implementation to Evaluation and Impact

Jurgen De Wispelaere, Antti Halmetoja, Ville-Veikko Pulkka

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Abstract

In 2015, Juha Sipilä's newly elected centre-right coalition government committed to launching a Basic Income experiment in its Government Programme. This propelled Finland onto the international scene and portrayed it as one of the leaders in Basic Income policy development. Yet the specifics of the Basic Income experiment---its design and implementation features---as well as the background to this decision, which is rooted in several decades of public and political debate surrounding the Basic Income proposal, remains little understood. Similarly, the experimental results and their impact on the Finnish social security debate remain unclear. In this primer we aim to shed light on the main features of the Finnish Basic Income experiment---its design, implementation, evaluation, and impact---and briefly reflect on the lessons to be learned for social security policy development in Finland and the wider Basic Income policy community.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income
EditorsMalcolm Torry
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages413-435
Number of pages23
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-41001-7
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-41000-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Publication typeA3 Book chapter

Publication series

NameExploring the Basic Income Guarantee
ISSN (Print)2662-3803
ISSN (Electronic)2662-3811

Publication forum classification

  • Publication forum level 3

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