Frictional unemployment: Short-term unemployment that occurs when workers are transitioning between jobs or entering the labor force.
How to apply it: Identify frictional unemployment as a normal feature of a healthy economy and distinguish it from structural unemployment.
Course: AP Macroeconomics · Unit: Economic Indicators and the Business Cycle
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