Reasons for Launching a Basic Income Experiment

Even if policy makers or the public are not at all interested in a BI and prefer a move to more workfare-oriented social security, it would still be advisable to conduct a BI experiment that would provide the benchmark or baseline against which the results of all workfare-oriented experiments can be evaluated. Why? The net impact of special workfare-programs compared to existing schemes depends on the normal treatment (applying for jobs, following job counseling courses, etc.) of social security recipients