An Unconditional Basic Income and Labor Supply Results from a Survey of Lottery Winners
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1 Earlier versions of this paper were presented at a seminar at the sociology department of the K.U.Leuven (20/5/2004), Midis intimes de la Chaire Hoover (Louvain-la-Neuve-25/5/2004), the ESF-workshop 'Towards a European Basic Income' (Barcelona-18/9/2004) and the 10 th BIEN congress (Barcelona – 20/9/2004). We are very grateful to all the participants. Special thanks to Jos Berghman for his support and to the Belgian National Lottery, and especially An Lammens, for supporting this pilot-project and coordinating the distribution of the questionnaires.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005