JimW
支那暗杀团
Saw this article linked in a discussion on benefits/welfare on another forum:
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100
Describes a 1970s Canadian trial in one small town to give everyone under the poverty line a guaranteed minimum income. Apparently they were most interested in how it would affect the labour market and that turned out to be not much - people still worked with only more mums staying at home and more teens in education (the horror!) - so the old free rider dilemma didn't seem to be an issue. Got binned swiftly four years in in an economic downturn and scandalously they didn't even fund analysis of the data so it's only recently some prof's got it out the dusty boxes.
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4100
Describes a 1970s Canadian trial in one small town to give everyone under the poverty line a guaranteed minimum income. Apparently they were most interested in how it would affect the labour market and that turned out to be not much - people still worked with only more mums staying at home and more teens in education (the horror!) - so the old free rider dilemma didn't seem to be an issue. Got binned swiftly four years in in an economic downturn and scandalously they didn't even fund analysis of the data so it's only recently some prof's got it out the dusty boxes.
