Inspired by Fröhlich and Oppenheimer (1990), an experimental survey in the lab was designed to find out if preferences for three different redistribution schemes differ under a veil of ignorance. The three schemes are a stylized version of the status quo German welfare state (A), a control...

Even if policy makers or the public are not at all interested in a BI and prefer a move to more workfare-oriented social security, it would still be advisable to conduct a BI experiment that would provide the benchmark or baseline against which the results of all workfare-oriented experiments...