Background checks and medical exams and onboarding paperwork can add a month of frictional unemployment on their own

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One career-long jobless spell versus a person who is out of work every second winter Waiting six months for a job that fits your training is voluntary unemployment by most definitions What extended unemployment benefits do to the length of a job search Does moving to another city to find work turn a frictional spell into something longer The line between structural and frictional unemployment: whether the missing skill can be learned in a few weeks Structural unemployment takes a generation to work through because whole careers have to be rebuilt Duration dependence: why month seven of unemployment is worse than month two Why the first job search of a new graduate naturally takes longer than a mid-career switch Why vacancies peak in hiring season and resumes peak in January: information gaps stretch the search Unemployment duration balloons in the first year of a recession and stays high after output recovers