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 ...

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'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 finance minister: ‘Case closed’ for universal basic income Finland is the first country to complete a nation-wide experiment on universal basic income. With the first results in, Finnish ...

A study by the VATT Institute for Economic Research and the Labour Institute for Economic Research (PT) shows that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor ...

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 ...

The Finnish Social Insurance Institution (Kela) will soon begin work on a presentation for basic income, regional news group Lännen Media reports. Once implemented, the model could revolutionise the ...