消除福利陷阱:芬兰基本收入实验中的就业反应

IF 5.6 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

American Economic Journal-Economic Policy Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI:10.1257/pol.20200143

Jouko Verho, Kari Hämäläinen, Ohto Kanninen

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摘要

本文提供的证据表明，用同等规模的基本收入取代最低失业救济最多只能产生很小的就业效应。我们研究了芬兰的一个实验，在这个实验中，2000名福利领取者被随机分配到每月领取基本收入。这项实验将全职工作的参与税降低了23个百分点。尽管工作激励大大增加，但在实验的第一年，就业天数在统计上保持不变。此外，尽管所有找工作的要求都已免除，但参加再就业服务的人数仍然很高。(j93, h24, h53, i38, j64, j65)

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Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment

This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were randomized to receive a monthly basic income. The experiment lowered participation tax rates by 23 percentage points for full-time employment. Despite the considerable increase in work incentives, days in employment remained statistically unchanged in the first year of the experiment. Moreover, even though all job search requirements were waived, participation in reemployment services remained high. (JEL C93, H24, H53, I38, J64, J65)

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American Economic Journal-Economic Policy ECONOMICS-

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8.20

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1.90%

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期刊介绍： The American Economic Review (AER) is a general-interest economics journal. The journal publishes 12 issues containing articles on a broad range of topics. Established in 1911, the AER is among the nation's oldest and most respected scholarly journals in economics. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy publishes papers covering a range of topics, the common theme being the role of economic policy in economic outcomes. Subject areas include public economics; urban and regional economics; public policy aspects of health, education, welfare and political institutions; law and economics; economic regulation; and environmental and natural resource economics.