Concept:Frictional unemployment occurs when a worker is temporarily between jobs while searching for a suitable new job.
Explanation:Mr. X lost his clerical job and looked for a similar job for ten months before he found one.
He was not retraining for a different career, so this was not structural unemployment.
His job loss was not caused by changes in seasons or by a general economic recession.
Therefore, seasonal and cyclical unemployment do not explain his situation.
The ten-month gap was simply the time spent searching for the right clerical job after leaving his former job.
This movement from one similar job to another is the key feature of frictional unemployment.
Answer:Mr. X was
frictionally unemployed.
Correct option:
B.