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What describes frictional unemployment?

Aunemployment caused by a general fall in economic activity
Bunemployment caused by the time of year
Cunemployment caused by wages being too high
Dunemployment caused by workers searching for jobs

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D: unemployment caused by workers searching for jobs

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Government and the macroeconomy, O-Level Economics (syllabus 2281). Multiple choice, 1 mark.
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O-Level Economics, May/June 2019 Paper 1 Variant 2, question 22.

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