But NOT withdrawal from the labor market
Painter, et al, 18, leads the RSA’s Research and Impact team, overseeing our research, policy, publications and practical innovation. Anthony is an award winning policy and social innovator. He leads the RSA’s social change work covering economic security, future of work, education, lifelong learning, local democracy and regenerative futures. He has been a leading voice, writer and presenter on the RSA’s platforms for almost a decade. (Anthony, “Pathways to Universal Basic Income The case for a Universal Basic Opportunity Fund,” RSA Action and Research Centre, https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/pdfs/reports/rsa_pathways-to-universal-basic-income-report.pdf)//BB
The common criticism that UBI would lead to large scale withdrawal from the labour market is similarly without strong basis.10. While the long-term impact of Basic Income is impossible to discern with certainty, the impacts of a range of multi-year experiments in North America and the developing world do not support the conclusion that there would be significant withdrawal from the labour market. Withdrawal from the labour market in these experiments, other than amongst particular groups such as young men staying on at college or mothers of very young children, was rare. There was some small reduction in weekly hours within experiments – but these were correlated with higher rates of payment while the benefits in terms of health, education, family life, crime and substance addiction were significant and common across all experiments.11. Capturing this range of factors emphasises the need for good system design and high quality experiments. The caricature of ‘free money making people lazy’ should be treated with scepticism on the basis of available evidence.