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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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Unlike frictional unemployment, long-term unemployment carries with it the loss of human capital and morale, ultimately threatening the employability of the person.
This is frictional unemployment corresponding to the time it takes young people to find their first job.
But how can we find out whether the U.S. economy has too much, too little, or the right amount of frictional unemployment?
If there is an inefficient excess of frictional unemployment, it should be reduced by policies that change search behavior and improve the effectiveness of job markets.
Unemployment beyond frictional unemployment is classified as unintended unemployment.
In the short term, the reallocation of workers between the various sectors may take some time, increasing frictional unemployment.

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