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David Calnitsky

Western University

“ When payment is conditional on work or narrowly targeted, basic income will increase workers’ market dependence and facilitate exploitation, but when it is generous, broadly available, and crucially, delinked from work, it will obstruct exploitation.” Business owners during Dauphin's Mincome experiment reported that while receiving the Mincome, new employee applicants were increasingly "unacceptable" because they were "not willing to train at reduced salary". A generous, universal basic income boosted workers’ bargaining power, raising wages in Dauphin, Canada.
The Employer Response to the Guaranteed Annual Income
Basic Income
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