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Economically Forced to Work: A Critical Reconsideration of the Lottery Question

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  • Paulsen Roland

    (University of Uppsala)

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The lottery question asks whether you would stop working, continue working in the same job or continue working in a different job if you won a sum of money large enough to allow you to live on it comfortably for the rest of your life without working. This literature review reports the results of 22 surveys carried out between 1955 and 2005 where this issue was raised in connection with basic income, and devotes specific attention to how the results have hitherto been analyzed. Used as a measure of employability, other dimensions of the lottery question, such as occupational discontent and satisfaction beyond economic necessity, have been largely overshadowed despite their prominence in the statistical material. The prevalence of non-financial employment commitment (NEC) has also been overestimated because of an analytical dichotomy between those who would continue working and those who would stop working completely if finances permitted. Suggestions for further studies include a clear distinction between non-financial commitment to current employment and to employment as such.

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  • Paulsen Roland, 2008. "Economically Forced to Work: A Critical Reconsideration of the Lottery Question," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 3(2), pages 1-20, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:bistud:v:3:y:2008:i:2:n:3
    DOI: 10.2202/1932-0183.1104
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    1. Samuel Brittan, 1995. "Capitalism with a Human Face," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 62.
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    1. Simona Demel & Petr Mariel & Luis Miller, 2018. "Education and the Non-financial Employment Commitment in Times of Economic Recession Among the Youth," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 140(2), pages 795-810, November.
    2. Rudi Wielers & Peter H. Meer, 2021. "Beyond Income: Why We Want to Keep on Working Even if We Don’t Need the Money," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 16(4), pages 1613-1635, August.
    3. Pasma Chandra, 2010. "Working Through the Work Disincentive," Basic Income Studies, De Gruyter, vol. 5(2), pages 1-20, December.
    4. Burchardt, Tania & Hick, Rod, 2017. "Inequality, advantage and the capability approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 84598, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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