The Impacts of the Ontario Basic Income Pilot: A Comparative Analysis of the Findings from the Hamilton Region

McDowell Tom () and Ferdosi Mohammad
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McDowell Tom: Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ferdosi Mohammad: Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Basic Income Studies, 2021, vol. 16, issue 2, 209-256

Abstract: This article provides the findings of a quantitative and qualitative study of participants from the prematurely cancelled Ontario Basic Income Pilot in the Hamilton region. We compare our evidence with those of other large-scale experiments from the high-income countries between 1968 and 2019 to place OBIP’s findings in the context of evidence from randomized control experiments with similar policy conditions to Ontario’s. Our study identified a small decline in labour market participation, but improvements on a variety of quality-of-life measurements. We hypothesize that OBIPs comparatively positive results on general well-being can be attributed to its: i) generous benefit rates relative to social assistance rates; ii) 50 percent take back rate; and iii) unconditionality; iv) broad well-being/welfare design.

Keywords: basic income; negative income tax; basic income guarantee; Ontario Basic Income Pilot (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1515/bis-2020-0034

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