> Sociologists Dr Kjetil van der Wel and Dr Knut Halvorsen examined responses to the statement 'I would enjoy having a paid job even if I did not need the money

> Sociologists Dr Kjetil van der Wel and Dr Knut Halvorsen examined responses to the statement 'I would enjoy having a paid job even if I did not need the money' put to the interviewees for the European Social Survey in 2010. It seems more accurate to headline that generous welfare benefits are correlated with people's responses to a single survey question. In economics, the question is almost never what people say, but what they do. It is entirely possible and plausible[0] that the response rate to the survey question and the actual behavior of seeking and achieving employment are not significantly correlated. [0] Social desirability bias is strong in surveys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias