This really becomes an intractable problem, as we're culturally unwilling to force people off welfare in order to make them work on farms, doing jobs they're unaware, unable to commute to, and don't pay a living wage for urban areas.
Many people on welfare already have jobs, they qualify for welfare because their resultant pay is too low compared with the cost of living. "Forcing people off welfare" isn't going to fix the problem there.
No, "publish or perish" really dis-incentivizes novel research because guess what, often times really novel research fails. All "publish or perish" really does is incentivize either cheating or the lowest risk research imaginable. There are other mechanisms for making sure a researcher is actually doing their work, punishing them for taking risks shouldn't be among them.
If novel research is failing peer-review, I don't see that not publishing is a good answer to that. A convenient one, no doubt.
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