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Basic Income and Human Needs Satisfaction: Evidence from the HudsonUP Experiment.

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Unconditional basic income (UBI) improved human needs satisfaction in participants. However, cash alone is insufficient, requiring supply-side reforms for eco-social UBI and sustainable welfare.

Keywords:

Basic income Eco-social policies Human needs Post-growth Sustainable welfare

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Socioeconomics
Wellbeing Studies
Sustainable Development

Background:

Human needs theories offer a holistic wellbeing perspective, relevant to sustainable welfare and post-growth economics.
These theories are underutilized in empirical unconditional basic income (UBI) research.
UBI experiments offer insights into societal wellbeing and welfare systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze qualitative data from the HudsonUP unconditional basic income (UBI) experiment.
To examine changes in participants' human needs satisfaction (subsistence, protection, freedom, participation, affection, leisure, understanding, creativity, identity).
To demonstrate the viability of applying needs-based approaches to UBI research.

Main Methods:

Qualitative data analysis from the HudsonUP UBI experiment.
Inductive/deductive hybrid thematic analysis of interviews.
Interviews conducted at baseline and three-year marks.

Main Results:

Participants' ability to satisfy material and non-material needs increased during the UBI experiment.
Participants continued to face barriers to full needs satisfaction despite UBI.
Cash-based UBI alone is insufficient for comprehensive needs satisfaction.

Conclusions:

Needs-based approaches are viable for UBI research.
An eco-social UBI requires supply-side reforms to satisfy human needs within ecological limits.
UBI can contribute to socially just and sustainable welfare, aligning with post-growth perspectives.