Research
How is artificial intelligence changing employment in Germany? The thesis rates every officially defined task in the German Classification of Occupations by how strongly AI affects, substitutes or complements it, and links the results to employment data. The finding: AI is currently reshaping jobs mainly by changing the tasks within them rather than causing uniform job losses.
Incentive compatibility of an unconditional basic income under discussion
Summarises a panel discussion on whether a basic income would change incentives to work, from an economic and a psychological perspective.
Socially acceptable conditions and rules for a basic income society
Summarises a discussion on whether an unconditional basic income would fundamentally change society and how it could be financed.
Both policy papers originate from the workshop “Solidarität statt Wettbewerb” (Solidarity instead of competition), held in Münster in March 2023 by the Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Economic Research at the University of Münster.