Suppose that during a given month 200,000 persons who had been self-employed leave their business and get jobs working for other businesses. This might give __________ bias to the __________ indicator.
A) an optimistic; unemployment rate
B) a pessimistic; unemployment rate
C) an optimistic; payroll employment
D) a pessimistic; payroll employment

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When self-employed individuals move to payroll jobs, it increases payroll employment figures, potentially giving an optimistic bias to this indicator as it suggests job growth.

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