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Designing a 'Smarter' Unemployment System
A government is redesigning its unemployment insurance program. The central challenge is the difficulty in distinguishing whether a recipient's continued unemployment stems from a lack of genuine job-seeking effort or from simple bad luck in a difficult market. Propose one specific policy mechanism (e.g., a change in benefit structure, a new requirement, or an incentive program) that could help the government better address this problem. Justify your proposal by explaining how it would work, and critically evaluate one potential drawback or unintended consequence of its implementation.
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Designing a 'Smarter' Unemployment System
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