To many in the Netherlands it seems that basic income’s time has come, following the wide appeal of several municipal experiments. These random-control trial designs study the effects on employment, social participation, health and well-being of exempting social assistance claimants from the duties of seeking work and participating in training activities under the workfare-oriented Participation Act. In some treatment groups, claimants also retain a larger percentage of earnings, thereby reducing the poverty trap. These two design features resemble an unconditional basic income. I situate the experiments in the wider context of basic income and discuss their theoretical background and policy orientation. Under existing legal strictures, the experimental designs are too limited to judge the effects of replacing the conditional scheme of social assistance by an unconditional one. Yet these experiments point the way for future trials which can compare the effectiveness of basic income-oriented versus workfare-oriented treatments.

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荷兰的基本收入实验？

对荷兰的许多人来说，在多项市政试验的广泛吸引力之后，基本收入时代似乎已经到来。这些随机对照试验设计研究了免除社会救助申请人在以工作费为导向的参与法案下寻找工作和参加培训活动的义务对就业、社会参与、健康和福祉的影响。在一些治疗组中，索赔人还保留了较大比例的收入，从而减少了贫困陷阱。这两个设计特征类似于无条件基本收入。我将实验置于更广泛的基本收入背景下，并讨论了它们的理论背景和政策导向。在现有的法律限制下，实验设计太有限，无法判断用无条件社会援助计划取代有条件社会援助计划的效果。然而，这些实验为未来的试验指明了道路，这些试验可以比较以收入为导向的治疗与以工作为导向的治疗的有效性。