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8 Suppose a country has a 26-week limit on the duration an unemployed person receives unemployment benefits. You collect some data and notice that workers in their 26th week of unemployment benefits somehow manage to find jobs at a much higher rate than other unemployed workers. This statistic suggests that employment insurance: O can be eliminated earlier. O is really needed. O should be expanded. O provides an incentive to wait until benefits run out before seriously looking for work or taking a new job.

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Suppose a country has a 26-week limit on the duration an unemployed person receives unemployment benefits. You collect some
data and notice that workers in their 26th week of unemployment benefits somehow manage to find jobs at a much higher rate than
other unemployed workers.
This statistic suggests that employment insurance:
O can be eliminated earlier.
O is really needed.
O should be expanded.
O provides an incentive to wait until benefits run out before seriously looking for work or taking a new job.
        
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Suppose a country has a 26-week limit on the duration an unemployed person receives unemployment benefits. You collect some
data and notice that workers in their 26th week of unemployment benefits somehow manage to find jobs at a much higher rate than
other unemployed workers.
This statistic suggests that employment insurance:
O can be eliminated earlier.
O is really needed.
O should be expanded.
O provides an incentive to wait until benefits run out before seriously looking for work or taking a new job.

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00:01 Hello.
00:03 Let's start with the first question.
00:07 Which of the following statements correctly describe discouraged workers? so we know that discourage workers who are not actively seek their jobs.
00:25 So let's look to the answer options and we can check all that apply.
00:31 So a, they are employed workers and actually we can stop here.
00:38 They are not employed workers.
00:41 So this one is not correct.
00:45 They are unemployed workers actually.
00:49 They are unemployed workers.
00:53 They are unemployed and they don't research their new jobs.
00:58 Okay.
01:00 They have not looked for a job in five, sorry, in four weeks or even longer.
01:05 But they would like a job and are available for work.
01:08 Yes, this is the correct answer.
01:12 It's exactly true.
01:14 They can work, but they did not look for job in four weeks or longer.
01:23 See, they have given up on looking for job.
01:29 Yes, it's also correct.
01:30 This means that they gave up...
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