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All right, so we want to consider what factor out of the multiple choice options would increase the natural rate of unemployment.
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So cause the number of unemployed people to go up.
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So answer choice a is an increase in the markup of firms.
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So that means a higher difference between the cost of production of a good and the cost of selling that good.
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That means people would likely not want to buy the goods as much because they're more expensive, meaning you're going to decrease demand for products, which could indeed increase the rate of unemployment since there's less demand for people to work the jobs to make the products.
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So answer choice a is plausible.
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Then we have answer choice b, an increase in levels of output and income.
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These are generally markers of economic prosperity and would correlate to a prosperous economy that has a higher rate of employment, not unemployment.
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Then we have answer choice c, a decrease in unemployment benefits...