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What is frictional unemployment?

What is frictional unemployment? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (economics) A type of unemployment explained by people being temporarily between jobs, searching for new ones. A labour market is regarded as being in the state of full employment if frictional unemployment is the only kind of unemployment present.
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In the short term, the reallocation of workers between the various sectors may take some time, increasing frictional unemployment.
This paper falls within the scope of recent efforts to integrate frictional unemployment into New Keynesian models: firms actively look for workers matching their requirements within the pool of job-seekers.
Unemployment beyond frictional unemployment is classified as unintended unemployment.
Unlike frictional unemployment, long-term unemployment carries with it the loss of human capital and morale, ultimately threatening the employability of the person.
Certainly, reallocation of labour could not occur with no frictional unemployment.
This is frictional unemployment corresponding to the time it takes young people to find their first job.

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