article_snippet.sent: Benefits and welfare schemes are often blamed for making people less likely to want to work.
article_snippet.sent: People who are hungry are more inclined to support of the welfare state policies that help the poor.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers also found that governments that intervene  to help the unemployed find work made people in general more likely to agree that The researchers wanted work even if The researchers didn't need the money. '
article_snippet.sent: Many scholars and commentators fear that generous social benefits threaten the sustainability of the welfare state due to work norm erosion, disincentives to work and dependency cultures,' The researchers said in the paper, 'The bigger the worse?
article_snippet.sent: A comparative study of the welfare state and employment commitment'. '
article_snippet.sent: A basic assumption is that if individuals can obtain sufficient levels of well-being - economic, social and psychological - from living off public benefits, compared to being employed, individuals would prefer the former.
article_snippet.sent: A comparative study of the welfare state and employment commitment'. ' also found that governments that intervene to help the unemployed find work made people more likely to say people wanted work even if people didn't need the money . '
article_snippet.sent: When a 'critical mass' of individuals receive public benefits rather than engaging in paid work, the norms regulating work and benefit behaviour will weaken, setting off a self-reinforcing process towards the 'self-destruction' of the welfare state.
article_snippet.sent: They also said that this may be because people who receive generous benefits when out of work may feel more inclined to give something back to the welfare state by striving hard to find work. '
article_snippet.sent: The notion that big welfare states are associated with widespread cultures of dependency, or other adverse consequences of poor short term incentives to work, receives little support.'
article_snippet.sent: The paper was published in the journal Work, Employment and Society.