frictional unemployment

English

Noun

frictional unemployment (uncountable)

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.

   Hyponyms: search unemployment, wait unemployment

Translations

type of unemployment

• Finnish: kitkatyöttömyys