The basic income that was implemented during an experiment led only to a small increase in employment. Finland is the only country that carried out a complete nationwide randomized control trial of a basic- income program. Despite the considerable increase in work incentives for the participants, days in employment remained statistically unchanged in the first year of the experiment, somewhat higher in the second.
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