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Frictional unemployment is the awkward gap between two jobs

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Economists categorize joblessness with cold precision, differentiating the truly doomed from those merely in transit. Frictional unemployment describes the perfectly normal, temporary void where someone has quit a terrible role but hasn't yet started their new one. It prevents the employment rate from ever hitting a perfect zero, ensuring the metric always looks slightly worse than reality.

Frictional unemployment is the awkward gap between two jobs
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