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Voluntary unemployment logo #20140Voluntary unemployment exists when people have chosen not to work because they do not feel that wages at the existing equilibrium are high enough to justify them working. They may prefer instead to receive benefits. Classical economists argued that any unemployment remaining in the long-term would be voluntary as the economy would automatically ten...
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