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".

"It is unclear how common this perspective was, as firms were given little space for detailed commentary. One other business-owner made a short but substantive comment. As an employer of a 40-person workforce, he complained that applicants were ‘unacceptable’ because they were ‘not willing to train at reduced salary’."