A groundbreaking trial providing a guaranteed basic monthly income to 2,000 jobless people has led to improved wellbeing but failed to boost employment, Finnish authorities announced on Friday. Last ...

The new Finnish trial is meant to test how people behave when they receive money from the government each month with no strings attached, The Guardian reports. Two thousand unemployed Finnish citizens ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's basic income scheme did not spur its unemployed recipients to work more to supplement their earnings as hoped but it did help their wellbeing, researchers said on Friday ...

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 to have ...

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland has become the first country in Europe to pay its unemployed citizens a basic monthly income, amounting to 560 euros ($587), in a unique social experiment which is hoped to cut ...

An experiment with 'free money' in Finland proved a failure nine years ago, when a landmark trial found that unemployed workers are 'no better or worse' at finding a job if they receive a guaranteed ...

HELSINKI — Finland on Wednesday said the Nordic country’s trailblazing basic income experiment is going ahead as planned, denying media reports that the trial has fallen flat. Government social ...

Andrew Spira is leveraging Finland's comprehensive universal basic income (UBI) study to strengthen the case for wider adoption of UBI. The Finnish trial, conducted from 2017 to 2018, involved ...

Presentation for the 5th Conference on Regulating Decent Work by Olli Kangas, Professor, PhD, Director of Governmental Relations Kela, Social Insurance Institution of Finland ...