Minimal impact on labor participation.
Rebecca Hasdell, 2020, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Stanford Basic Income Lab. She holds a Masters of Public Health (Health Promotion) and PhD (Social and Behavioral Health Sciences) from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, "What we know about Universal Basic Income: A cross-synthesis of reviews.," Stanford Basic Income Lab, https://basicincome.stanford.edu/uploads/Umbrella%20Review%20BI_final.pdf, KL
Title: What we know about Universal Basic Income: A cross-synthesis of reviews.
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT
The evidence from diverse interventions in low-, middle-, and high-income contexts indicates minimal impact on aggregate measures of labor market participation,3,5,6 with some studies reporting an increase in work participation.11 When reductions do occur, time is channeled into other valued activities such as caregiving.6