Discouraged workers are not officially counted as unemployed and thus are not counted as part of labor force.
So, if there are 5 million unemployed workers and out of that 1 million becomes discouraged then, in that case, both the number of unemployed and labor force will decrease by 1 million.
When both number of unemployed and labor force decreases by same amount then official unemployment rate declines.
So,
As a result of this, the official unemployment rate would decline.
Hence, the correct answer is the option (2) [Decline].
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