"frictional unemployment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} frictional unemployment (uncountable)
  1. (economics) A type of unemployment explained by people being temporarily between jobs, searching for new ones; that is, because of inefficiencies in matching people to jobs and not because of a lack of available jobs. Tags: uncountable Hyponyms: search unemployment, wait unemployment Related terms: full employment Translations (type of unemployment): kitkatyöttömyys (Finnish), chômage frictionnel [masculine] (French), bezrobocie płynne [neuter] (Polish)
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