Welfare fraud
Norms
There is also a clear correlation between increased social spending and deteriorating benefit morale, a phenomenon predicted by economist Assar Lindbeck.

Welfare fraud

Section Title: Norms
Table Section Text: There is also a clear correlation between increased social spending and deteriorating benefit morale, a phenomenon predicted by economist Assar Lindbeck.

Attitudes to welfare fraud in Sweden

1981-84	81.5

1989-93	74.5

1994-99	57.9

1999-04	55.3

2005-08	61

Percentage agreeing that ”claiming government benefits to which you are not entitled is never justified”.

Sentence(s)

This erosion of social norms has been dropped from 81.5% to 55.3% from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.

final_sentence: This erosion of social norms has been dropped from 81.5% to 55.3% from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.