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"A low-skilled worker might reduce their working hours to attain skills enabling career progression." It this based on anything? Are we hoping they'll do this,
by latch 9y ago
"A low-skilled worker might reduce their working hours to attain skills enabling career progression."
It this based on anything? Are we hoping they'll do this, or do we know how people typically use unexpected sources of income? Or, is it: "The more stitches the less riches" ?
Appendix 1 of the paper is a hard-to-read "fictionalised accounts" of how the money can be used. I like #2, Kathryn the government debt collector who already felt a great sense of accomplishment is now able to provide even more help.
(I did a quick google and found some analysis of how IETC is spent. It seems that transportation is the biggest thing, but that might be a US-specific pattern).
- egypturnash 9y agoUtopia for Realists has some well-cited discussion of how people used their money in the UBI tests of the Seventies. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists_(book) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists_(book)
- jenscow 9y agoIt's a BS statement. More likely the fund will be squandered (if cash). If it's in the form of a voucher, it will be ignored. But let's say every low skilled worker actually wanted to become a skilled-worker, then who will perform the low skilled work?