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The chapter discusses the history, design and first empirical findings of Dutch local RCT (Randomised Controlled Trial) experiments with participation income which are currently implemented in 11 cities. The emergence of these local experiments can be viewed as reflecting an ongoing shift in Dutch social policy from a classical ‘stick and carrot’ or workfare approach of social welfare, to a social investment and capacitating approach. The empirical analyses discuss the methodology and outcomes on job search, employment chances and work capabilities, and the health and well-being of some 1500 participants using survey and municipal administrative data. We perform LCA (Latent Class Analysis) to provide a profile of the participants of the experiments and estimate (binary logit regression) their exit probabilities into paid work. In the end we formulate some expectations and conclusions about the meaning and effects of these participation income experiments in the Netherlands for people’s employment, health and well-being situation, and their wider implications for social policy, notably with a view to a social investment and capacitating approach.
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According to the Natural Persons Debt Restructuring Act (Wet schuldsanering natuurlijke personen, Wsnp) Dutch municipalities are obliged to help their residents with problematic debts. The main objective of the Wsnp is to offer (financial) perspective to individuals in a desperate financial situation as a result of debts.
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We used the period of June 1, 2016 to June 1, 2018 even though we had data up to September 1. The reason is that the data are administratively corrected by the municipality on a two monthly basis.
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In the administrative social assistance data for the four cities no education information is available for Tilburg and Wageningen.
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Muffels, R., Gielens, E. (2019). Job Search, Employment Capabilities and Well-being of People on Welfare in the Dutch ‘Participation Income’ Experiments. In: Delsen, L. (eds) Empirical Research on an Unconditional Basic Income in Europe. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30044-9_5
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