BBI #160: Work Requirements w/ Matt Darling
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The distribution of money and other benefits in our economy often comes with work requirements attached. In the context of the labor market, it's normal to get paid only if you work a job. Why does that arrangement make sense? Once we leave the context of labor and wages, to what extent does it continue to make sense to condition people's access to resources on the expectation of work?
We are joined this week by Matt Darling, an employment and labor market policy researcher and employment policy fellow at the Niskanen Center.
Matt has argued that work requirements attached to government-run social programs are harmful.
For reading this week, we have a white paper co-authored by Matt entitled "Work Requirements Don't Work."
https://www.ideas42.org/blog/work-requirements-dont-work/
Previous related Boston Basic Income topics have included:
BBI #65: The Free Rider problem
https://youtu.be/H-GYCgPdAl8
BBI #102: Idleness and Leisure
https://youtu.be/qi9TrcUaxX8
BBI #132: Cultural Incentives
https://anchor.fm/bostonbasicincome/episodes/132--Cultural-Incentives-eo2ms6
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Image from 1920 Soviet poster issued in Uzbekistan
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_who_does_not_work,neither_shall_he_eat#/media/File:%E2%80%9CWho_doesn%E2%80%99t_work_doesn%E2%80%99t_eat%E2%80%9D%E2%80%93_Uzbek,_Tashkent,1920(Mardjani).jpg)