Posted on 11/19/2013, 2:51:50 AM by Olog-hai
High levels of benefits for the unemployed do not lead to a lack of motivation to find work, a Europe-wide study has found.
University of Edinburgh researchers found benefit levels had “no effect” on the wellbeing of those without a job.
Researchers found some countries with the most generous benefits also had some of the most despondent unemployed citizens, and vice versa.
Their paper covered 28 countries across Europe. It compared how unemployment affected people’s life satisfaction levels. …
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Pretty much.
The same research group found that the Sun had no effect on warming of the Earth.
My lazy, liberal brother lives off unemployment until the benefits almost run out, then races around like mad to find a job a week or two before benefits run out. While he’s racing around trying to find a job, he’s cursing the Republicans for “f”-ing the working man because they won’t extend benefits. And I’ve seen a lot of others like him. A 55 year old who sat on his ass collecting relief until the PA state version of cash benefits was eliminated. Then, after a lot of cursing about those evil Republicans, he got his lazy ass out and found a job. This survey is BS, but we all knew that already.
The headline doesn’t reflect what the study actually showed - they are talking about two completely different things - laziness, on one hand, and satisfaction with one’s life, on the other.
In other words....
I feel really really bad about not working, but really really don’t want to give up the real money I get for not really working.
So far as I can tell, the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for work that showed virtually the opposite:
The Laureates’ model of the labour market characterises the search activity of the unemployed, the recruiting behaviour of firms and wage formation. The model can be used to study how the level and duration of unemployment, the number of job vacancies and the real wage are determined. For example, what role is played by the design of unemployment insurance, the efficiency of employment agencies and regulations on firing and hiring? The effects of unemployment insurance have been extensively studied. The theory implies that more generous benefits bring about longer search time for the unemployed and higher unemployment − a relationship that has received support in many empirical studies. However, unemployment insurance can also facilitate efficient matching between job seekers and vacancies, so that the "right person" ends up in the "right place". But questions about how unemployment insurance should be designed can of course not be answered without also weighing in the fact that this insurance provides income protection to those who have been laid off. Search theory has also proved to be a highly useful tool for such welfare analyses of alternative designs of unemployment insurance.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2010/presentation-speech.html
“Benefit levels ‘do not promote laziness’, study suggests”
That’s explains why the welfare ghettos are centers of production, innovation, and industrial activity.
LOL! Just another goofy “study” performed by a bunch of freakish clowns without a clue.
Benefits don’t make them lazier. There was a term in calculus when you were approaching a maximum and nothing could ever push you beyond the limit.
So, if you are already at your laziest, no amount of benefits will make you lazier.
Yeah, according to the article the study was about how the unemployed’s self images are affected by the largess of their benefits. Study shows more benefits don’t make them feel better about themselves.
Bizarre headline.
It’s not a question of quantifying laziness, which is a Boolean factor anyhow.
They’re trying to claim that the level of “benefits” has no effect on how lazy someone is, just based on the average all across the continent.
It’s the BBC; of course the headline won’t reflect anything significant that appeared in the study, but will reflect a phony conclusion.
And—they were paid to do it!
And Soviet economists all agreed that their system worked.
I plan on jumping in the wagon as soon as the minimum gov’t payment law is enacted. As long as I can afford popcorn, I’ll be set. LOL!
LOL!
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