The chief economic cost of unemployment is

a. the value of the leisure that is lost when people are unemployed
b. the cost to employed citizens of paying unemployment benefits
c. money spent on the job search process
d. the chance that the unemployed might turn to crime to support themselves
e. the value of output that could have been produced, but is not

E

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