Frictional Unemployment Is

question 108

Multiple Choice

Frictional unemployment is

• A) unemployment caused by time delays in matching available jobs and workers.
• B) unemployment caused by changes in the industrial makeup of an economy.
• C) unemployment caused by economic downturns.
• D) when a worker stops looking for a job because he or she feels no job is available.
• E) not one of the three types of unemployment.

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