Evaluating the Impact of Economic Conditions on Employment Rent
An individual's current job pays $12 per hour for a 35-hour week, with a disutility of effort valued at $2 per hour. If she were to lose this job, she would receive an unemployment benefit of $4 per hour but would also incur psychological and social costs equivalent to $1 per hour. Initially, she expected to be unemployed for 44 weeks.
Now, consider a change in the economic environment: due to a booming job market, she now anticipates that if she were to lose her job, she would only be unemployed for 22 weeks before finding an identical job.
Based on this new information, evaluate the overall effect on her total employment rent and explain the significance of this change regarding her incentive to keep her current job.
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