Why is frictional unemployment deemed desirable?

Question

Why is frictional unemployment deemed desirable?

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Answer 1

a certain amount of frictional unemployment, or job search unemployment, is desireable to maintain an efficient allocation of resources.   If we consider unemployment to be horrible and have no conventions to help assist people in job searches and to survive unemployment, people would stay in jobs that do not take advantage of their skills and the total productivity of our society will be less than if we have an appropriate amount of movement between jobs as people develop new skills or the employer's needs change

Answer 2

I never do homework but I respect your honesty. Because I was curious as to what the term meant I did a little search for my own knowledge (never taken an economics course). Since you helped expand my knowledge base, I will at least show you my search result:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemploymen...