Q.Give short note on Frictional Unemployment.

Frictional unemployment is the brief, unavoidable joblessness of workers in transition between jobs or searching for their first job; it is voluntary and short-lived, not caused by a shortage of aggregate demand.

In the Tamil Nadu HSC Class-12 Economics syllabus, frictional unemployment is studied as one of the recognised types of unemployment.

• It occurs when workers leave one job and take time to find and join another, or when fresh entrants (school/college leavers) search for suitable employment.
• It arises from imperfect information in the labour market — vacancies and job-seekers are not matched instantly.
• It is temporary and, to some extent, unavoidable in any dynamic economy where people change jobs freely. …