{"id":118912,"date":"2021-01-27T06:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/universal-basic-income-doesnt-impact-worker-productivity"},"modified":"2021-01-27T06:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:02:16","slug":"universal-basic-income-doesnt-impact-worker-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/universal-basic-income-doesnt-impact-worker-productivity","title":{"rendered":"Universal basic income doesn\u2019t impact worker productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-basic-income-doesnt-impact-worker-productivity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think Eric Klien.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A universal basic income worth about one-fifth of workers\u2019 median wages did not reduce the amount of effort employees put into their work, according to an experiment conducted by Spanish economists, a sign that the policy initiative could help mitigate inequalities and the impact of automation.<\/p>\n<p>Providing workers with a universal basic income did not reduce the amount of effort they put into their work, according to an experiment conducted by Spanish economists, a sign that the policy initiative could help mitigate inequalities and debunking a common criticism of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Examining a universal basic income worth about one-fifth of workers\u2019 median wages, the researchers also found that the threat of being replaced by robots did not impact workers\u2019 productivity, nor did a tax on firms when they replace a worker with a robot or automated process, though the latter successfully created a disincentive for managers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think Eric Klien. A universal basic income worth about one-fifth of workers\u2019 median wages did not reduce the amount of effort employees put into their work, according to an experiment conducted by Spanish economists, a sign that the policy initiative could help mitigate inequalities and the impact of automation. Providing workers with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-policy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}