Basic Income in a Small Town
Understanding the Elusive Effects on Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2245145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Calnitsky (0000-0002-0828-1957, University of Bremen), Jonathan P Latner (0000-0002-9771-1276, University of Bremen) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 456-456 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/socpro/spx024 |
| OpenAlex | W2474620265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 76 |
This paper examines the impact of a guaranteed annual income experiment from the 1970s called the Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment (Mincome). We examine Mincome’s “saturation” site located in Dauphin, Manitoba, where all town residents were eligible for payments. Would people work less if their basic needs were guaranteed outside the market? Never before or since the Dauphin experiment has a rich country tested a guaranteed annual income at the level of an entire town. A community-level experiment accounts for the fact that people make decisions in a social context, not in isolation. Using hitherto unanalyzed data we find an 11.3 percentage point reduction in labor market participation, and nearly 30 percent of that fall can be attributed to “community context” effects. Additionally, we show that withdrawals were driven disproportionately by young and single-headed households. Participants who provide qualitative explanations for work withdrawals typically cite care work, disability and illness, uneven employment opportunities, or educational investment.
Basic income · Context (archaeology) · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Income Support · Investment (military) · Labour economics · Low income · Market economy · Payment · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Finance · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 26 |
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| Citations per year | 3,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |