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- Title
The Impacts of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot: A Comparative Analysis of the Findings from the Hamilton Region.
- Authors
McDowell, Tom; Ferdosi, Mohammad
- Abstract
This article provides the findings of a quantitative and qualitative study of participants from the prematurely cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot in the Hamilton region. We compare our evidence with those of other large-scale experiments from the high-income countries between 1968 and 2019 to place OBIP's findings in the context of evidence from randomized control experiments with similar policy conditions to Ontario's. Our study identified a small decline in labour market participation, but improvements on a variety of quality-of-life measurements. We hypothesize that OBIPs comparatively positive results on general well-being can be attributed to its: i) generous benefit rates relative to social assistance rates; ii) 50 percent take back rate; and iii) unconditionality; iv) broad well-being/welfare design.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; BASIC income; COMPARATIVE studies; HIGH-income countries; LABOR market
- Publication
Basic Income Studies, 2021, Vol 16, Issue 2, p209
- ISSN
2194-6094
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bis-2020-0034