0 unemployment (= the state of not having a job) that exists because someone has left a job and not yet found or started another:
1 the state of being temporarily unemployed when you are moving between jobs or looking for your first job:
When you resign from a job without securing another job, you are entering frictional unemployment.
Frictional and structural unemployment are part of life.
Others see unemployment as largely due to voluntary choices by the unemployed (frictional unemployment).
They have advocated a single labour contract to eliminate frictional unemployment, which is very high in France.
One form of frictional unemployment is search unemployment which arises when workers do not accept the first job or jobs on offer but spend some time looking for a better-paid job.
