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The job-finding rate discusses the effects of job-finding and the expected duration of unemployment from the following:

a. An increase in unemployment insurance benefits

b. An increase in the allowable duration of unemployment insurance benefits

c. A technological change, such as the Internet, that improves the matching of workers and jobs

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