Suppose that during a given month 200,000 persons who had been self-employed leave their business and get jobs working for other businesses. This might give __________ bias to the __________ indicator

A) an optimistic; unemployment rate
B) a pessimistic; unemployment rate
C) an optimistic; payroll employment
D) a pessimistic; payroll employment


C

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