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We don’t “know” something just because one study showed it.

But mincome actually did show a reduction in working hours, which is hard to spin as “improve employment”.

It says "mostly women using the money to have more time to care for their children". I call this improvement, if not in "employment" (an abstract concept) then in "quality of life" (a real thing)

This might also be interpretd as anti-feminist, since this will increase the non-adjusted gender pay gap.

We men better use more time to take care of children to compensate for that (and get better relationsships with our children).

That doesn't resolve the concern laid out by the parent commenter at all.

It certainly does. If men was at home with their children as much as women, the part of the non-adjusted gender pay gap that is due to women being home more with children would disappear.

I know people who absolutely despise their job. More money isn't necessarily better.

I would say both of those things are pretty abstract.

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