If unemployment benefits, payable for 26 weeks, became more generous it would be likely to _____ structural unemployment and _____ the natural rate of unemployment:

a. Not change; not change
b. Not change; increase
c. Increase; increase
d. Increase; not change


b

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A) allocative efficiency. B) productive efficiency. C) equity. D) scarcity.

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a. True b. False

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