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An employee values their time while unemployed at an equivalent of $10 per hour. To perform their job to the required standard, they must exert effort that they perceive as a personal cost equivalent to $3 per hour. At what specific hourly wage would this employee feel equally well-off working with the required effort as they would being unemployed?
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