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- Short-term joblessness associated with mobility. A person who leaves a job to find something better is considered frictionally unemployed. This type of unemployment characterizes workers subject to seasonal work (e.g., construction, agricultural, winter recreational workers, etc.). John S. Irons, Washington DC
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- Technological change often reduces frictional unemployment, for example: the internet made job searches cheaper and more comprehensive. - EconomicExpert.com
 by - Frictional unemployment is that unemployment caused by information or search costs. Usually when a person quits, is fired, or enters the labor market, there are jobs available for which that person is qualified. The person will be frictionally unemployed because it takes time (and effort) to find the jobs that are available. - Robert Schenk by
- Finding the open positions and workers available is a large factor in frictional unemployment, even in this Great Recession. - newsneconomics.com by
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- Desempleo friccional: Desempleo temporal causado por cambios incesantes de la economía. El desempleo friccional es distinto al desempleo cíclico, resultante de un bajo nivel de demanda agregada en el contexto de salarios y precios bajos. SBIF - by Lina Villegas
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- La cuantía del desempleo friccional depende de la frecuencia con que los trabajadores cambian de empleo y del tiempo que tardan en encontrar uno nuevo. - Monograifas by Lina Villegas
- Otra forma de desempleo fricciona] está asociada con actividades estacionales. Las personas ocupadas en estas actividades tienen empleo sólo durante un período del año. - Eco-finanzas by Lina Villegas
- Desempleo friccional: Los fenómenos de búsqueda y rotación surgen porque siempre hay trabajadores que dejan su puesto de trabajo para buscar otro que se adecue mas a ellos. - Xuletas by Lina Villegas
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