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It's literally the second paragraph:

> They also worked less on average but remained engaged in the workforce and were more deliberate in their job searches compared with a control group.

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so they were more picky? I dont think that’s intrinsically good or bad, but it seems concordant with the finding in unemployment studies that a large proportion of unemployed workers who get a fixed period of unemployment payments end up finding a job in the last month when the payment is about to end. Which raises the question, should you make the period shorter to reduce financial burden of unemployment insurance on workers, or longer to allow workers to be even more “deliberate” about their employment choices?

I'd say that's intrinsically good. What is the alternative to not being able to afford the cost of living?

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