Yes. Absolutely. Often, one of the questions we're asked is about the whole notion of work disincentives. Are people going to stop working if they get money? It's an interesting question because there is a slight reduction—in North American experiments anyway— in work participation, but it's largely due to things that we would think are actually helpful.
Because a basic income provides a way for people to decide whether they want to stay at home a little bit to take of children, whether they want to leave their job and go to another job, whether they want to go on and do more education and further their training, it allows all of those options to be on the table for them.
That has caused a slight or a very modest reduction. For example, in the MINCOME experiment in the 1970s where they saw a slight reduction, it had to do with people going back to school to further their skills and also with mothers who wanted to stay at home for a little bit to raise their babies. At the time they only had four weeks in maternity leave. They really wanted to spend a little bit more than a month with their kids, so some of those folks took their basic income and stayed at home with those kids, and when the kids grew, they were able to get back into the workforce. But it really does provide much more opportunities for women to pursue what they want to do, and even to get out of toxic, non-safe jobs and have some bargaining power to be able to say, no, I'm going to a better job because I can do that.