Cyclical unemployment and frictional unemployment both leave you jobless for months but only one of them needs a stimulus package

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The line between structural and frictional unemployment: whether the missing skill can be learned in a few weeks Keynesian cyclical unemployment in one line: demand collapses and firms cut hours before they cut people Only one of the four textbook unemployment types clears up on its own once growth returns The gap between leaving one job and starting the next runs about ten weeks and that is normal frictional churn How a shortfall in aggregate demand turns into layoffs: orders drop in spring and headcount falls by autumn Does moving to another city to find work turn a frictional spell into something longer Why vacancies peak in hiring season and resumes peak in January: information gaps stretch the search Why the first job search of a new graduate naturally takes longer than a mid-career switch How the scale of cyclical unemployment differed between the Great Depression and the 2008 crisis Telling structural and cyclical unemployment apart: one is about skills and the other is about orders