Language: DUTCH Klokwerk, “Proeven aan het basisinkomen: de vrije-inloopbijstand” [Tests of basic income: condition-free assistance]

News portal Sargasso.nl runs an opinion piece on the condition-free benefit payment experiments currently being developed by several green and socially liberal local authorities in the Netherlands.

Specialist commentator Klokwerk warns that the pilot schemes may fail to generate the hoped-for evidence in favor of basic income because they won’t test dynamic effects on labor markets and benefit uptake choices.

Klokwerk’s article argues that in order to be meaningful, Dutch pilot projects must include giving the working poor rights to payments, as well as seeing what current recipients do if they are freed from conditionality.

Klokwerk, “Proeven aan het basisinkomen: de vrije-inloopbijstand.”, Sargasso, May 31, 2015.