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Benefit levels ‘do not promote laziness’, study suggests
BBC News ^ | 18 November 2013 | Last updated at 01:36 ET

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eussr; laziness; socialiststudy; welfarestate
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1 posted on 11/19/2013, 2:51:51 AM by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
so they were simply a lazy useless slug to begin with... is that it???
2 posted on 11/19/2013, 2:53:47 AM by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Pretty much.


3 posted on 11/19/2013, 2:54:44 AM by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Olog-hai

The same research group found that the Sun had no effect on warming of the Earth.


4 posted on 11/19/2013, 2:56:57 AM by ImNotLying (Obama's Biggest Lie: If you like your Constitution, you can keep it.)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


5 posted on 11/19/2013, 2:59:50 AM by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Olog-hai

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.


6 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:00:34 AM by Steve_Seattle
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To: Lurker
right? cause i don't know how else to intemperate it..
7 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:06:22 AM by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


8 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:12:19 AM by digger48
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To: Lurker
interpret it... damn spell checker
9 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:14:09 AM by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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Report author Dr Jan Eichhorn, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Social and Political Science, said: "Those who claim that greater unemployment benefits lead to less motivation for people to seek employment should think again.

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

10 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:15:48 AM by gusopol3
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“Benefit levels ‘do not promote laziness’, study suggests”

That’s explains why the welfare ghettos are centers of production, innovation, and industrial activity.


11 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:18:48 AM by Iron Munro (When a killer screams 'Allahu Akbar' you don't need to be mystified about a motive.)
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To: Olog-hai

LOL! Just another goofy “study” performed by a bunch of freakish clowns without a clue.


12 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:19:12 AM by FlingWingFlyer (Repeal ObamaScam NOW!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

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.


13 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:21:51 AM by Vermont Lt ( 1-800-318-2596, Mr President.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

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.


14 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:25:09 AM by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Vermont Lt

It’s not a question of quantifying laziness, which is a Boolean factor anyhow.


15 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:31:06 AM by Olog-hai
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To: Steve_Seattle

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.


16 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:35:05 AM by Olog-hai
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To: FlingWingFlyer

And—they were paid to do it!


17 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:52:12 AM by huldah1776
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To: Olog-hai

And Soviet economists all agreed that their system worked.


18 posted on 11/19/2013, 3:59:16 AM by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Olog-hai

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!


19 posted on 11/19/2013, 4:07:54 AM by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL!


20 posted on 11/19/2013, 4:08:51 AM by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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